Deputy Lieutenant of Aberdeen explained

Deputy lieutenants of Aberdeen are commissioned by the Lord Provost of Aberdeen who, since 1899 by virtue of office, is also Lord-Lieutenant of Aberdeen.

The Lieutenancy Area of Aberdeen City was formerly known as the County of the City of Aberdeen - not to be confused with the County of Aberdeen, which is now known as Aberdeenshire.

19th Century

• 12 January 1900: Alexander George Pirie, Chairman of Stoneywood Paper Mill
• 12 January 1900: Alexander Milne Ogston
• 12 January 1900: Thomas Ogilvie
• 12 January 1900: James Murray
• 12 January 1900: Daniel Mearns
• 12 January 1900: Alexander Lyon Jnr.
• 12 January 1900: Colonel Thomas Innes
• 12 January 1900: Robert Henderson
• 12 January 1900: Alexander Morison Gordon
• 12 January 1900: Alexander Ogston Gill
• 12 January 1900: John Fyfe
• 12 January 1900: Theodore Crombie
• 12 January 1900: Duncan Vernon Pirie
• 12 January 1900: Sir David Stewart former Provost of Aberdeen
• 12 January 1900: Sir William Henderson
• 12 January 1900: Sir Alexander Baird
• 12 January 1900: Sir John Forbes Clark
• 12 January 1900: James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce
• 12 January 1900: John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
• 12 January 1900: Charles Gordon, 11th Marquess of Huntly

20th century

• 11 October 1905: William Meff jun.
• 11 October 1905: Sir James Taggart
• 10 September 1908: Sir John Fleming
• 10 September 1908: Colonel James Ogston
• 29 November 1910: Colonel Lachlan Mackinnon, Advocate
• 27 October 1911: Major General Sir Alexander John Forsyth Reid
• 26 April 1912: Alexander Wilson
• 28 July 1915: Norman Buchan, 18th Earl of Caithness
• 28 July 1915: Weetman Pearson, 1st Baron Cowdray
• 28 July 1915: Major General Sir James Ronald Leslie Macdonald
• 28 July 1915: Harold John Tennant
• 28 July 1915: John Turner
• 21 September 1917: Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Arthur Grant, 10th Baronet
• 21 September 1917: Colonel William Andrew Mellis
• 21 September 1917: Lieutenant-Colonel James Ochoncar Forbes
• 5 August 1918: George Bennett Mitchell
• 23 January 1920: Major William Yeats McDonald
• 10 September 1925: Commander Wilfrid Bayley Pirie
• 10 September 1925: Colonel Macbeth Moir Duncan
• 10 September 1925: Colonel William Smith Gill
• 10 September 1925: Colonel Thomas Ogilvie
• 10 September 1925: Colonel John Scott Riddell
• 2 August 1926: Lieutenant Harry Alexander Holmes
• 11 February 1928: Robert Williams
• 28 May 1928: Colonel Frederick Richard Gerrard Forsyth
• 4 December 1929: Colonel Harry Jackson Kinghorn
• 4 December 1929: Sir Andrew Jopp Williams Lewis
• 5 April 1930: Colonel Frank Fleming
• 5 April 1930: Sir John Marnoch
• 16 February 1932: John Malcolm Fyfe
• 18 October 1932: John Reid Dean
• 15 February 1933: James Reid Rust
• 30 March 1935: Archibald Gordon, 5th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair,
• 30 March 1935: Colonel Thomas Fraser
• 19 November 1935: Captain James Hay
• 19 November 1935: Major Malcolm Vivian Hay
• 14 January 1936: Henry Alexander
• 15 December 1938: Lieutenant-Colonel Edward William Watt
• 15 December 1938: Major Alexander Lyon
• 15 December 1938: James Dawson
• 8 April 1952: Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel McDonald,^{[1] [2] [3]} honorary Sheriff-substitute of Angus and Forfar, Sheriff-substitute of Hamilton, Sheriff-substitute of Arbroath, Sheriff-substitute of Aberdeen, Kincardine and Banff, Sheriff Substitute of Lanarkshire.
• 8 April 1952: Duncan Fraser
• 8 April 1952: Sir Alexander Greig Anderson
• 6 July 1953: William David Reid
• 30 August 1956: Lieutenant Athol Benzie
• 30 August 1956: Reverend Professor John Macdonald Graham
• 30 August 1956: Colonel Edward Birnie Reid
• 12 May 1959: Honorary Colonel Roy Brown Strathdee,
• 12 May 1959: Honorary Colonel Alexander Milne
• 12 May 1959: Lieutenant-Colonel Lachlan Mackinnon
• 17 April 1964: George Stephen
• 17 April 1964: Lieutenant-Colonel James Shankley
• 17 April 1964: Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Patrick Edward Murray}
• 17 April 1964: Captain James Scott Gray Munro
• 17 April 1964: John Cecil King
• 17 April 1964: Lieutenant-Colonel aDouglas Edmond
• 17 April 1964: Sir Ian Robert Algernon Forbes-Leith of Fyvie
• 27 September 1965: Reverend Professor John Macdonald Graham
• 1 May 1967: James Campbell Williamson
• 1 May 1967: Colonel Alexander Logie Stalker
• 1 May 1967: William Ranald Stewart Mellis
• 1 May 1967: Lieutenant Richard Tunstall Ellis
• 1 May 1967: Squadron Leader James Downie Campbell
• 1 May 1967: Dr Logie Samuel Bain
• 1 December 1970: Norman Hogg, Baron Hogg of Cumbernauld
• 31 May 1978: Lieutenant James Fergus Watt
• 31 May 1978: Frank Ramsay
• 31 May 1978: Major David Maxwell Procter
• 31 May 1978: Captain Kenneth Jamieson Peters}
• 31 May 1978: Lieutenant-Colonel Charles John Howell Mann
• 31 May 1978: Lieutenant Joseph Robert Carry
• 10 December 1992: Charles Leslie Robertson
• 20 December 1993: William Wyllie (Appointed Vice Lord-Lieutenant 2004)
• 12 September 1995: James Alexander Lamond
• 12 September 1995: Audrey Anne Dawson
• 12 September 1995: Alan John Codona
• 29 April 1999: Philip Kivuva Muinde
• 29 April 1999: Alison Skene (Appointed Vice Lord-Lieutenant on 4 January 2007)

21st century

• 17 April 2003: Andrew Lawtie Appointed Vice Lord-Lieutenant on 3 September 2015.
• 17 April 2003: Lavina Massie
• 3 March 2005: Michael C. Hastie
• 3 March 2005: Roy Hendry Thomson
• 3 March 2005: Jennifer A. Shirreffs
• 3 March 2005: Joseph Leiper
• 4 January 2007: John L. Langler
• 17 January 2007: James Smith Milne
• 7 December 2007: Forbes McCallum
• 17 April 2008: Margurita Esson
• 17 April 2008: Audrey Walker
• 23 April 2010: Dennis Davidson
• 16 March 2012: Beverley Graham
• 5 December 2013: Sir Ian Diamond, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen
• 20 April 2015: Gregory Poon
• 17 November 2015: Lady (Joan) Catto
• 19 December 2017: William Young, former Aberdeen City Councillor
• 19 December 2017: Isabel McIntyre
• December 2019: Gillian Milne
• December 2019: Graham Guyan
• March 2022: Avril Gray
• March 2022: Mike Melvin
• March 2022: Margaret Openshaw
• May 2022: Gail Mair

Notes and References

1. News: Sheriff Samuel McDonald, Collapse at Rally . . Glasgow . 9 . 22 February 1957 . . 12 February 2018.
2. Web site: McDonald, Samuel – Roll of Honour . The University of Aberdeen . 12 February 2018.
3. News: . 14 February 2014 . Community councillor suggests new street name . The Fraserburgh Herald . 12 February 2018.