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,
 * 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,
 * 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