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Example sentences for "privy councillor"

  • He questioned Hans about his life and listened attentively when he heard that he was tutor in the house of Privy Councillor Goetz.

  • Theophile Stein who in Kroeppel Street had been Moses Freudenstein, until in the year 1852 when he, despised by those who had made use of him, despised by those against whom he had been used, received the title of "Privy Councillor.

  • He is the second dignitary of the court, and is always a member of the government of the day (before 1782 the office carried cabinet rank), a peer and a privy councillor.

  • He is always a member of the government, a peer and a privy councillor.

  • He also is one of the ministry, a white-staff officer and the bearer of a key; and he is generally a peer or the son of a peer as well as a privy councillor.

  • He is by office a privy councillor, and it has long been the practice to make him a peer and also a cabinet minister.

  • Burke was rewarded for services beyond price by being made paymaster of the forces, with the rank of a privy councillor.

  • All the first were assembled at half-past one; saw the King in his closet severally, and held their last Council to swear in George Dawson a Privy Councillor.

  • Anson as Master of the Buckhounds was made a Privy Councillor, not usually a Privy Councillor's place, but the King said he rather liked increasing the number than not.

  • In 1804 he was called to Dresden as superintendent of the studies of the court pages, and received the rank of privy councillor.

  • In 1777 he became archbishop of York, and also lord high almoner and privy councillor.

  • In August 1657 Juel was accredited to the court of Poland, and though he failed to prevent King John Casimir from negotiating separately with Sweden he was made a privy councillor on his return home.

  • He retained his seat in parliament and in 1806 he was made a member of the government and a privy councillor.

  • On the formation of Sir Wilfrid Laurier's administration he accepted the office of controller of inland revenue, and a year later he became a privy councillor, as minister of inland revenue.

  • In April, 1697, Lord Mar was chosen a privy councillor; and shortly afterwards invested with the Order of the Thistle; and the command of a company of foot bestowed upon him.

  • In his early youth, after his return from his travels, the Duke of Queensbury was appointed a Privy Councillor of Scotland by Charles the Second.

  • To these distinctions was added that of being a Privy Councillor to James the Second; but he was removed upon his opposing the abrogation of the penal laws against Popery.

  • Went to the Court of King's Bench this morning to prove that the Duke of Wellington is a Privy Councillor, on the trial of the action which the Duke brought against the 'Morning Journal.

  • Rob Adair[7] was sworn in Privy Councillor, and he remained in the room and heard the speech, which he ought not to have done.

  • When Lord Bexley arrived we asked him, and he said that Herries would only be sworn then as a Privy Councillor, and must take the oath of Chancellor of Exchequer in the Court of Exchequer.

  • At the Restoration he was made Vice Chamberlain to the King, Treasurer of the Navy, and A Privy Councillor, and in 1661 M.

  • William, First Earl of Craven, a Privy Councillor, and Colonel of the Coldstream Guards; supposed to be married to the Queen of Bohemia, Ob.

  • The King wishes to make Lord Combermere a Privy Councillor, thinking all gold sticks have been so.

  • The Chief Justice of the Common Pleas was sworn in as Privy Councillor.

  • He observed he was the only person there who was not a Privy Councillor, and expressed a wish to be one.

  • The Duke of Norfolk attended to be sworn in as a Privy Councillor.

  • The Lord Mayor is never sworn as a Privy Councillor; but on the demise of the Crown attends the meeting, of the Privy Council held on such occasion, and signs the proclamation of the new Sovereign.

  • In February 1641 he was made a privy councillor, and during the course of some negotiations was promised the office of lord high treasurer.

  • He was made a privy councillor, and was sent on diplomatic errands to Charles IX.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    boiling point; but yet; child born; constitutional amendment; constrained voice; coriander seed; feet above the plain; hand book; hasty glance; hippopotamus major; moral power; neutral vessel; objective case; privy councillor; privy councilor; privy purse; privy seal; sermon preached; sometimes also; still more; terminal moraines; this end; thus defined; wild cats; will consent