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]

Sir Walter Coutts

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

References
  1. 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. ‘COUTTS, Sir Walter (Fleming)’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016


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