# 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, 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, OBE
* 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, 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, OBE
* 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
* November 2021: Avril Gray
* November 2021: Mike Melvin
* November 2021: Margaret Openshaw
* May 2022: Gail Mair