Freedom of the City of Aberdeen

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Aberdeen's Freedom ceremony has its origins in the 12th Century. There have been 38 Freedom ceremonies in Aberdeen since the start of the 20th Century. At one time recipients were required to own arms and be prepared to use them in defence of the city.

The Freedom of the City of Aberdeen has been conferred on the following persons since 1833:

• The Lord Brougham and Vaux (1834)
• The Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry (1834)
• The Marquess of Tweeddale (1834)
• The Earl of Erroll (1836)
• The Duke of Richmond and Lennox (1837)
• George Watt of Aberdeen (1839)
• The Duke of Sutherland (1840)
• Robert Wallace of Kelly (1841)
• George Thomas of Fairley (1841)
• Samuel McKnight of South Carolina (1844)
• Rowland Hill (1844)
• Albert, Prince Consort (1848)
• Sir Robert Peel, Bt (1849)
• The Earl of Carlisle (1853)
• Joseph Hume (1854)
• The Earl Stanhope (1858)
• The Earl of Airlie (1859)
• Lord John Russell (1859)
• Edward Ellice (1862)
• The Prince of Wales (1866)
• William Ewart Gladstone (1871)
• William Edward Forster (1876)
• Sir Arthur Hamilton-Gordon (1878)
• Sir John Anderson (1881)
• The Earl of Aberdeen (1883)
• Sir Richard Assheton Cross (1883)
• Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery (1884)
• Marquess of Lorne (1888)
• William Alexander Hunter (1890)
• Henry Morton Stanley (1890)
• Andrew Carnegie (1892)
• Charles William Mitchell of Jesmond Towers (April 10, 1901)
• The Lord Mount Stephen (April 27, 1901)
• The Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal (April 9, 1902)
• The Earl Roberts (August 29, 1913)
• William Morris Hughes (August 29, 1918)
• Sir Douglas Haig (July 11, 1919)
• The Lord and Lady Cowdray (August 16, 1926)
• Sir Robert Williams (October 24, 1927)
• The Earl Jellicoe (September 26, 1928)
• Sir Thomas Jaffray of Edgehill (September 26, 1928)
• Rev. Robert Laws of Livingstonia (September 26, 1928)
• Sir James Murray (October 7, 1931)
• Sir George Adam Smith (October 7, 1931)
• The Lord Meston (September 20, 1935)
• The Lord Milne (September 20, 1935)
• William Lyon Mackenzie King (June 19, 1937)
• Joseph Aloysius Lyons (June 19, 1937)
• Peter Fraser (July 31, 1941)
• Jan Christiaan Smuts (1942)
• John Gilbert Winant (July 27, 1943)
• Vi-Kyuin Wellington Koo (July 27, 1943)
• Winston Spencer Churchill (April 27, 1946)
• Sir John Boyd Orr (March 16, 1949)
• Thomas Johnston (March 16, 1949)
• The Colonel, Officers and other Ranks of the Gordon Highlanders (August 20, 1949)
• The Earl Attlee (June 5, 1956)
• The Lord Bilsland (June 5, 1956)
• Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother (May 25, 1959)
• Sir Dugald Baird and Lady Baird (June 21, 1966)
• The Lord Strathclyde (June 21, 1966)
• Mary Esslemont (October 9, 1981)
• Nelson and Winifred Mandela (November 29, 1984)
• HMS Scylla (June 8, 1992)
• Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (December 6, 1993)
• University of Aberdeen (February 11, 1995)
• Alex C. Collie (November 18, 1995)
• Sir Alex Ferguson (March 30, 1999)
• John Rowland Mallard (August 14, 2004)
• Highlanders, 4th Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland (July 1, 2006)
• George Donald (April 20, 2008)
• William "Buff" Hardie (April 20, 2008)
• Stephen Robertson (April 20, 2008)

[edit] References

• Burgesses of the City of Aberdeen. Retrieved on 2007-12-11.