Lord President of the Council
The Lord President of the Council is the presiding officer of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom and the fourth of the Great Officers of State, ranking below the Lord High Treasurer but above the Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal. The Lord President usually attends and is responsible for chairing the meetings of the Privy Council, presenting business for the approval of the Sovereign. In the modern era, the incumbent is by convention always a member of one of the houses of Parliament, and the office is normally a Cabinet position.
Lord President of the Council
Image: Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk
Image: William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester from NPG
Image: John Dudley (Knole, Kent)
Privy Council (United Kingdom)
His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council is a formal body of advisers to the sovereign of the United Kingdom. Its members, known as privy counsellors, are mainly senior politicians who are current or former members of either the House of Commons or the House of Lords.
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
Caricature by Thomas Rowlandson titled Privy Council of a King (1815); throned is George IV, then Prince Regent.
Queen Victoria convened her first Privy Council on the day of her accession in 1837.