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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

Now here is the Privy Counsellor, who puzzles his head about some talk concerning the will.

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

I am told the Privy Counsellor is to resign,--and perhaps to leave this town.

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

The company is waiting for the Privy Counsellor.

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

Early in 1662 he was nominated a Privy Counsellor of Ireland: in August he was again sent on an embassy to Lisbon, and was accompanied by his wife and children.

From Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe, Wife of Sir Richard Fanshawe, bart., ambassador from Charles the Second to the courts of Portugal and Madrid. by Fanshawe, Anne Harrison, Lady