List of people removed from a Privy Council
# List of people removed from a Privy Council

This is a list of people removed from the Privy Council of England, of Ireland, of Great Britain, and of the United Kingdom.

Membership of a Privy Council, once given, normally lasts for life, but it is possible for Privy Counsellors to be expelled from membership and for them to ask to be removed.

| Individual | Appointed | Removed | Notes |
| - | - | - | - |
| Lord Churchill | 14 February 1689 | 23 June 1692 | Both struck out of the list as being suspected of intrigues with the deposed former King James II. Churchill was restored on 19 June 1698, and Shrewsbury on 4 March 1694. |
| Earl of Shrewsbury | 14 February 1689 | 23 June 1692 | Both struck out of the list as being suspected of intrigues with the deposed former King James II. Churchill was restored on 19 June 1698, and Shrewsbury on 4 March 1694. |
| Duke of Ormonde | 6 April 1696 | September 1714 | Struck out of the list after the accession of King George I. Subsequently attainted (20 August 1715). |
| Earl Coningsby | 13 April 1693 | 7 November 1724 | Struck out of the list as a result of a petition from the Leominster corporation arising from his "tyranny and injustice" as a landowner there. |
| Earl of Macclesfield | 30 March 1710 | 31 May 1725 | Struck out of the list after being convicted of corruption and fined £30,000. |
| William Pulteney | 6 July 1716 | 1 July 1731 | Struck out of the list after writing an offensive pamphlet against both Robert Walpole and King George II. Restored 20 February 1742. |
| Lord George Sackville | 27 January 1758 | 25 April 1760 | Struck out of the list after failing to obey orders to bring up the cavalry at the Battle of Minden. Restored 20 December 1765. |
| Henry Flood | 20 September 1776 | 1781 | Struck out of the list "by the King's own hand". |
| Charles James Fox | 30 March 1782 | 9 May 1798 | Struck out of the list after making a toast to the sovereignty of the people. Restored 5 February 1806. |
| Viscount Melville | 31 July 1782 | 9 May 1805 | Requested to be removed on 11 June 1805, after criticism in the Tenth Report of the Naval Commissioners of Inquiry. Restored 8 April 1807. |
| Sir Edgar Speyer, Bt. | 22 November 1909 | 13 December 1921 | Struck out of the list after an inquiry found he had shown himself "to be disaffected and disloyal to His Majesty". |
| John Profumo | 8 February 1960 | 26 June 1963 | Requested to be removed after admitting giving a false statement to Parliament. |
| John Stonehouse | 28 June 1968 | 17 August 1976 | Requested to be removed after conviction for theft and false pretences, and being sentenced to seven years' imprisonment. |
| Jonathan Aitken | 21 July 1994 | 26 June 1997 | Requested to be removed after withdrawing from a libel case; police had begun investigating him for perjury. |
| Elliot Morley | 19 December 2006 | 8 June 2011 | Struck out of the list after pleading guilty to false accounting, and being sentenced to imprisonment for 16 months. |
| Chris Huhne | 13 May 2010 | 13 March 2013 | Requested to be removed after pleading guilty to perverting the course of justice. |
| Denis MacShane | 22 June 2005 | 9 October 2013 | Requested to be removed. |
| Lord Prescott | 27 July 1994 | 6 November 2013 | Requested to be removed in protest at the delay in granting the Royal Charter on self-regulation of the press. |
| Sir Seamus Treacy | 12 January 2018 | 24 April 2018 | Requested to be removed. |
| Percival Patterson | 1993 | 13 April 2022 | Requested to be removed. |
