Walter Coutts Explained

Honorific Prefix:Sir
Walter Coutts
Office1:Governor-General of Uganda
Term Start1:9 October 1962
Term End1:9 October 1963
Monarch1:Elizabeth II
Predecessor1:himself
Successor1:position abolished
Office2:Governor of Uganda
Term Start2:1961
Term End2:1962
Monarch2:Elizabeth II
Predecessor2:Sir Frederick Crawford
Successor2:himself
Office3:Administrator of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Term Start3:1948
Term End3:1955
Monarch3:Elizabeth II
Governor3:Sir Robert Arundell
Sir Edward Beetham
Predecessor3:Ronald Herbert Garvey
Successor3:Alexander Falconer Giles
Birth Date:30 November 1912
Profession:colonial administrator
Alma Mater:St John's College, Cambridge

Sir Walter Fleming Coutts (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 chosen for this job because he had a reputation within the colonial office for supporting African nationalism and African independence movements.[3]

He was educated at Glasgow Academy, the University of St Andrews and St John's College, Cambridge.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. https://books.google.com/books?id=D6HKAgAAQBAJ&dq=Walter+Fleming+Coutts+1912&pg=PA774 Profile of Walter Fleming Coutts
  2. "Uganda, Republic of", in Heads of States and Governments Since 1945, Harris M. Lentz, ed. London: Routledge, 2014.
  3. "Uganda, Republic of", in Heads of States and Governments Since 1945, Harris M. Lentz, ed. London: Routledge, 2014.
  4. ‘COUTTS, Sir Walter (Fleming)’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016