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Sir Walter Coutts
Sir Walter Fleming Coutts GCMG MBE (30 November 1912 – 4 November 1988)[1] was a British colonial administrator and was Uganda's final Governor before independence, from 1961–1962. He was Governor-General of Uganda 1962–1963.[2]
He was educated at Glasgow Academy, the University of St Andrews and St John's College, Cambridge.[3]
| Government offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Ronald Herbert Garvey | Administrator of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1948 – 1955 | Succeeded by Alexander Falconer Giles |
| Preceded by Sir Frederick Crawford | Governor of Uganda 1961–1962 | Post abolished |
| New creation | Governor-General of Uganda 1962–1963 | Succeeded by Sir Edward Mutesa as President of Uganda |
See also
- Clan Farquharson - the surname Coutts is a sept of this Scottish clan
References
- ^ Profile of Walter Fleming Coutts
- ^ "Uganda, Republic of", in Heads of States and Governments Since 1945, Harris M. Lentz, ed. London: Routledge, 2014.
- ^ ‘COUTTS, Sir Walter (Fleming)’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016