Deputy Lieutenant of Aberdeen

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,{{London Gazette |issue=27153 |page=222 |date=12 January 1900}} 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.{{London Gazette |issue=27845 |page=6935 |date=17 October 1905 |nolink=y}}
11 October 1905: Sir James Taggart
10 September 1908: Sir John Fleming{{London Gazette |issue=28177 |page=6689 |date=15 September 1908 |nolink=y}}
10 September 1908: Colonel James Ogston
29 November 1910: Colonel Lachlan Mackinnon, Advocate{{London Gazette |issue=28444 |page=9144 |date=6 December 1910 |nolink=y}}
27 October 1911: Major General Sir Alexander John Forsyth Reid{{London Gazette |issue=28545 |page=7798 |date=27 October 1911 |nolink=y}}
26 April 1912: Alexander Wilson{{London Gazette |issue=28603 |page=3097 |date=30 April 1912 |nolink=y}}
28 July 1915: Norman Buchan, 18th Earl of Caithness{{London Gazette |issue=29258 |page=7913 |date=10 August 1915 |nolink=y}}
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{{London Gazette |issue=30348 |page=10905 |date=23 October 1917 |nolink=y}}
21 September 1917: Colonel William Andrew Mellis
21 September 1917: Lieutenant-Colonel James Ochoncar Forbes
5 August 1918: George Bennett Mitchell{{London Gazette |issue=30836 |page=9383 |date=9 August 1918 |nolink=y}}
23 January 1920: Major William Yeats McDonald{{London Gazette |issue=31755 |page=1100 |date=27 January 1920 |nolink=y}}
10 September 1925: Commander Wilfrid Bayley Pirie{{London Gazette |issue=33084 |page=6030 |date=15 September 1925 |nolink=y}}
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{{London Gazette |issue=33190 |page=5293 |date=10 August 1926 |nolink=y}}
11 February 1928: Robert Williams{{London Gazette |issue=33357 |page=1140 |date=17 February 1928 |nolink=y}}
28 May 1928: Colonel Frederick Richard Gerrard Forsyth{{London Gazette |issue=33392 |page=3950 |date=8 June 1928 |nolink=y}}
4 December 1929: Colonel Harry Jackson Kinghorn{{London Gazette |issue=33559 |page=8027 |date=10 December 1929 |nolink=y}}
4 December 1929: Sir Andrew Jopp Williams Lewis
5 April 1930: Colonel Frank Fleming{{London Gazette |issue=33595 |page=2255 |date=8 April 1930 |nolink=y}}
5 April 1930: Sir John Marnoch
16 February 1932: John Malcolm Fyfe{{London Gazette |issue=33800 |page=1131 |date=19 February 1932 |nolink=y}}
18 October 1932: John Reid Dean{{London Gazette |issue=33876 |page=6705 |date=25 October 1932 |nolink=y}}
15 February 1933: James Reid Rust{{London Gazette |issue=33912 |page=1084 |date=17 February 1933 |nolink=y}}
30 March 1935: Archibald Gordon, 5th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, {{post-nominals|list=OBE}}{{London Gazette |issue=34148 |page=2325 |date=5 April 1935 |nolink=y}}
30 March 1935: Colonel Thomas Fraser
19 November 1935: Captain James Hay{{London Gazette |issue=34223 |page=7513 |date=26 November 1935 |nolink=y}}
19 November 1935: Major Malcolm Vivian Hay
14 January 1936: Henry Alexander{{London Gazette |issue=34243 |page=380 |date=17 January 1936 |nolink=y}}
15 December 1938: Lieutenant-Colonel Edward William Watt{{London Gazette |issue=34584 |page=8312 |date=30 December 1938 |nolink=y}}
15 December 1938: Major Alexander Lyon
15 December 1938: James Dawson
8 April 1952: Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel McDonald,{{London Gazette |issue=39524 |page=2240 |date=25 April 1952 |nolink=y}}{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19570222&id=JmJAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=epwMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2735,5740524 |title=Sheriff Samuel McDonald, Collapse at Rally |newspaper=The Herald |location=Glasgow |page=9 |date=22 February 1957 |via=Google News |accessdate=12 February 2018}}{{cite web |url=http://www.abdn.ac.uk/library/roll-of-honour/3644/ |title=McDonald, Samuel – Roll of Honour |website=The University of Aberdeen |accessdate=12 February 2018}}{{cite news |author= |date=14 February 2014 |title=Community councillor suggests new street name |url=http://www.fraserburghherald.co.uk/news/community-news/community-councillor-suggests-new-street-name-1-3306492 |newspaper=The Fraserburgh Herald |access-date=12 February 2018}} 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.{{London Gazette |issue=34247 |date=21 January 1936 |page=458 |nolink=y}}
8 April 1952: Duncan Fraser
8 April 1952: Sir Alexander Greig Anderson
6 July 1953: William David Reid{{London Gazette |issue=39920 |page=4013 |date=21 July 1953 |nolink=y}}
30 August 1956: Lieutenant Athol Benzie{{London Gazette |issue=40876 |page=5173 |date=11 September 1956 |nolink=y}}
30 August 1956: Reverend Professor John Macdonald Graham
30 August 1956: Colonel Edward Birnie Reid
12 May 1959: Honorary Colonel Roy Brown Strathdee, {{post-nominals|list=OBE}}{{London Gazette |issue=41744 |supp=y |page=4004 |date=19 June 1959 |nolink=y}}
12 May 1959: Honorary Colonel Alexander Milne
12 May 1959: Lieutenant-Colonel Lachlan Mackinnon
17 April 1964: George Stephen{{London Gazette |issue=43317 |page=3984 |date=8 May 1964 |nolink=y}}
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 Douglas Edmond
17 April 1964: Sir Ian Robert Algernon Forbes-Leith of Fyvie
27 September 1965: Reverend Professor John Macdonald Graham{{London Gazette |issue=43789 |page=9561 |date=15 October 1965 |nolink=y}}
1 May 1967: James Campbell Williamson{{London Gazette |issue=44309 |page=5295 |date=11 May 1967 |nolink=y}}
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{{London Gazette |issue=45285 |page=778 |date=21 January 1971 |nolink=y 45285}}
31 May 1978: Lieutenant James Fergus Watt{{London Gazette |issue=47564 |page=7008 |date=9 June 1978 |nolink=y}}
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{{London Gazette |issue=53133 |page=20898 |date=11 December 1992 |nolink=y}}
20 December 1993: William Wyllie{{London Gazette |issue=53517 |page=20142 |date=20 December 1993 |nolink=y}} (Appointed Vice Lord-Lieutenant 2004)
12 September 1995: James Alexander Lamond{{London Gazette |issue=54155 |page=12381 |date=12 September 1995 |nolink=y}}
12 September 1995: Audrey Anne Dawson
12 September 1995: Alan John Codona
29 April 1999: Philip Kivuva Muinde{{London Gazette |issue=55471 |page=4795 |date=29 April 1999 |nolink=y}}
29 April 1999: Alison Skene (Appointed Vice Lord-Lieutenant on 4 January 2007)

21st century

17 April 2003: Andrew Lawtie{{London Gazette |city=e |issue=25409 |page=1033 |date=15 April 2003}} 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{{London Gazette |city=e |issue=26180 |page=109 |date=16 January 2007 |nolink=y}}
7 December 2007: Forbes McCallum{{London Gazette |city=e |issue=26367 |page=4547 |date=7 December 2007 |nolink=y}}
17 April 2008: Margurita Esson{{London Gazette |city=e |issue=26440 |page=1394 |date=18 April 2008 |nolink=y}}
17 April 2008: Audrey Walker
23 April 2010: Dennis Davidson{{London Gazette |city=e |issue=26778 |page=1557 |date=23 April 2010 |nolink=y}}
16 March 2012: Beverley Graham{{London Gazette |city=e |issue=27069 |page=706 |date=16 March 2012 |nolink=y}}
5 December 2013: Sir Ian Diamond,{{London Gazette |city=e |issue=27336 |page=3045 |date=6 December 2013 |nolink=y}} Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen
20 April 2015: Gregory Poon{{London Gazette |city=e |issue=2321635 |page=646 |date=21 April 2015 |nolink=y}}
17 November 2015: Lady (Joan) Catto{{London Gazette |city=e |issue=27639 |page=1942 |date=13 November 2015 |nolink=y}}
19 December 2017: William Young,{{London Gazette |city=e |issue=27966 |page=2326 |date=22 December 2017 |nolink=y}} former Aberdeen City Councillor
19 December 2017: Isabel McIntyre
December 2019: Gillian Milne{{Edinburgh Gazette |city=e |issue=28275|page=2193 |date=20 December 2019 |nolink=y}}
December 2019: Graham Guyan
November 2021: Avril Gray{{Edinburgh Gazette |city=e |issue=28581|page=1984|date=30 November 2021 |nolink=y}}
November 2021: Mike Melvin
November 2021: Margaret Openshaw
May 2022: Gail Mair{{London Gazette |city=e |issue=28651 |page=850 |date=17 May 2022 |nolink=y}}
December 2024: Myles Edwards{{Cite web |date=6 December 2024|title=New Aberdeen Deputy Lieutenants Commissioned {{!}} Aberdeen City Council |url=https://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/news/new-aberdeen-deputy-lieutenants-commissioned |access-date=23 March 2025 |website=www.aberdeencity.gov.uk |language=en}}
December 2024: Graeme Kinghorn
December 2024: Morven Mackenzie
December 2024: Ian Ord
December 2024: Rita Stephen
December 2024: Dr Hector Williams

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