Privy Collection

Whitehall / Hollar 1647
Whitehall from the Thames showing possibly the view between White Hall Palace Stairs & Privy Stairs with Inigo Joness Banqueting House in the background

Margaret Bondfield - Labour MP - 1st female cabinet minister
Margaret Grace Bondfield CH PC (1873-1953) was a British Labour politician, trade unionist and womens rights activist. She became the first female cabinet minister

Lord Clarendon, George William Frederick Villiers
George William Frederick Villiers, the 4th Earl of Clarendon (1800 - 1870), leading English Whig politician, who served as Lord Privy Seal

Comic postcard, council worker Date: 20th century

A curious gate called St. John Gate, the oldest house
A curious gate in variegated brickwork called St. John Gate, the oldest house in Stepney. Copperplate engraving by John Thomas Smith after original drawings by members of the Society of Antiquaries

Seventh Carriage of Royal Household in Queen Victoria s
Seventh Carriage of the Royal Household in Queen Victorias coronation parade. Two Maids of Honor, Hon. Miss Cavendish and Hon

Sir Hoare and his wife carrying gas masks, September 1939
Sir Samuel Hoare and his wife Lady Maud Hoare walking home with their gas masks, days after his appointment as Lord Privy Seal following the outbreak of war. 1939

Court women of Burma in ceremonial dress. Servant bowing, chief counsellor or woongees wife with fan, privy counsellor or attawoons wife, and counsellor or woondocs wife with fan

Burmese court officials to the Emperor. Chief minister and counsellor (Woongee, Woondock) at left, privy counsellor and first secretary (Attawoon and Sere Dogee) and rhahaan or priest with fan

Monumental Brass Rubbing, Edward and Dorothy Wotton
Monumental Brass Rubbing, Sir Edward Wotton and his wife Dorothy, Boughton Malherbe, Kent. Sir Edward Wotton (1489-1551) was Treasurer of Calais and a privy councillor to King Edward VI of England

Privy Council seated around Henry V
Members of the Privy Council also know as Majestys Most Honourable Privy Council, were exclusively men, a body of advisers to the sovereign, her showing seated around the king of England at the time

Sir Arthur Helps, Vanity Fair, Ape
SIR ARTHUR HELPS (1813-1875) English writer and dean of the Privy Council (1860 to 1875) Caption: Council Date: 1874

PRIVY COUNCIL OFFICE
Office of the Privy Council, Whitehall, designed by Sir Charles Barry Date: 1846

Lord Waddington (1929-2017)
David Charles Waddington, Baron Waddington, Lord Waddington (1929-2017) GCVO, DL, QC, PC British politician. Governor of Bermuda from 1992-1997. Pictured outside Government House, Bermuda. Date: 1992

Lord Privy Seal - Sir Samuel Hoare
Lord Privy Seal - Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood (1881-1949). Date: circa 1939

Illuminated letter C with Queen Elizabeth I sitting in state attended probably by three members of her privy council. The letter, a 19th century reproduction

The Prime Minister with his war cabinet
The eight men who control the war machine: left to right (standing): Mr Arthur Greenwood, Minister without Portfolio; Mr Ernest Bevin, Minister of Labour and National Service; Lord Beaverbrook

The Trial of the Pyx
The first part of the proceedings of the Trial of the Pyx, held in the Board room of the Treasury; this ancient ceremony is connected with the Mint for testing the purity of its work. Date: 1870

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (1708-1778). British statesman of the Whig group. Engraving. Portrait. Colored

Sir John Lawrence (1811-1879). Colored engraving
John Laird Mair Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence (1811-1879). British politician. Engraving in The Universal History, 1892. Colored

Archibald Williamson
ARCHIBALD WILLIAMSON statesman, privy counsellor Date: 1860 - 1931

Goddess of the Privy
TSE-KOU-CHEN (also known as K ANG-SAN-KOU) a concubine, murdered in the privy by her masters legitimate wife, but rewarded by being appointed Goddess of the Privy Date: 1919

Visit to LFB by Mr Attlee, Lord Privy Seal, WW2
Mr Clement Attlee (Lord Privy Seal in Winston Churchills wartime coalition government, later Deputy Prime Minister 1942-1945 and Prime Minister 1945-1951)

Mr Attlee attending hosepipe tests at Wimbledon, WW2
Mr Clement Attlee (Lord Privy Seal in Winston Churchills wartime coalition government, later Deputy Prime Minister 1942-1945 and Prime Minister 1945-1951)

King James II statue
King James II of England (1633-1701, reigned 1685-1688), a statue of him in Roman costume by the sculptor Peter Van Dievoet (1686), previously in the Privy Garden, Whitehall

Sir Edgar Speyer (1862-1932), 1st Baronet. American born financier and philanthropist, chairman of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London from 1906 to 1915 and a Privy Councillor

Baptist May
BAPTIST MAY Statesman, keeper of the Privy Purse for Charles II. Date: 1629 - 1698

Earl of Minto
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (1845-1914) - Governor-General of Canada (1898-1904) and Viceroy Governor-General of India (1905-1910)

Boy getting on to his new Bicycle
Interesting photograph of a boy getting onto his new Bicycle. He is obviously used to riding a Penny Farthing as his method of mounting the bicycle is akin to the way one had to mount a Penny

James Earl of Cardigan
JAMES BRUDENELL, earl of CARDIGAN Constable and Governor of Windsor Castle and Keeper of the Privy Purse to the King. Date: 1725 - 1811

Chichester Carlingford
CHICHESTER SAMUEL PARKINSON- FORTESCUE, baron CARLINGFORD Statesman, Privy Seal. Date: 1823 - 1898

Visit to LFB by Mr Attlee, Lord Privy Seal, WW2
Mr Clement Attlee (Lord Privy Seal in Winston Churchills wartime coalition government, later Deputy Prime Minister 1942-1945 and Prime Minister 1945-1951)

Privy Council Office, Whitehall, 1846
Engraving showing the exterior of the Privy Council Office in Whitehall, London, 1846. The facade of this building was greatly altered that year, to the designs of Barry

The 2nd Marquis of Salisbury (1791-1868)
Engraving of James Brownlow William, 2nd Marquis of Salisbury, who served as Lord Privy Seal (1852) and Lord President of the Council (1858)

Sir Reginald Bray
SIR REGINALD BRAY English statesman, Privy Councillor to Henry VII

Privy Council Committee
A judicial committee of the Privy Council in session

London Nightman
A London NIGHTMAN offers to cart away the contents of your privy (loo) at reasonable rates

John Hamilton
JOHN HAMILTON privy councillor who strongly opposed the union of England with Scotland

PAGET (1505 - 1563)
WILLIAM PAGET 1st Baron Paget de Beaudesert English statesman and adviser to King Henry VIII

Outdoor Privy
The perils of the outdoor privy - Martha, Martha, run and fetch me some paper !

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