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When he became deputy chairman of the Conservative Party in 2015, "no-one had informed me that I would be made a Privy Counsellor", Mr Halfon said.

From BBC • Sep. 10, 2022

Very well; then you act as Privy Counsellor, as you think proper; and I, as trustee of the hospital and guardian of the children, will do the same.

From The Lawyers, A Drama in Five Acts by Iffland, Augustus William

He was a Privy Counsellor, and had afterwards the management, of the Duke of York's family.

From The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Braybrooke, Richard Griffin, Baron

That petty Privy Counsellor is now dead and buried to me.

From The Lawyers, A Drama in Five Acts by Iffland, Augustus William

Only think; Ranger Gernau sends me word, that yesterday the news arrived, that my brother has been made a Privy Counsellor.

From The Lawyers, A Drama in Five Acts by Iffland, Augustus William