Walter Coutts

Sir Walter Coutts

Sir Walter Fleming Coutts GCMG MBE (1912–1988) was a British colonial administrator and was Uganda's last Governor before independence, from 1961–1962. He was Governor-General of Uganda 1962–1963. [1]

He was educated at Glasgow Academy, the University of St Andrews and St John's College, Cambridge.[2]

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. ↑ "Uganda, Republic of", in Heads of States and Governments Since 1945, Harris M. Lentz, ed. London: Routledge, 2014.
  2. ↑ ‘COUTTS, Sir Walter (Fleming)’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016


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