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 19611962. He was Governor-General of Uganda 19621963.[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]

Sir Walter Coutts

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

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. "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


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