Walter Coutts
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:More citations needed Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Sir Walter Fleming Coutts Template:Postnominals (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]
Template:S-govTemplate:S-endSee also
- Clan Farquharson - the surname Coutts is a sept of this Scottish clan
References
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- ↑ Profile of Walter Fleming Coutts
- ↑ "Uganda, Republic of", in Heads of States and Governments Since 1945, Harris M. Lentz, ed. London: Routledge, 2014.
- ↑ "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
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- 1912 births
- 1988 deaths
- People educated at the Glasgow Academy
- Alumni of the University of St Andrews
- Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge
- Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George
- Members of the Order of the British Empire
- Governors of Uganda
- Governors-general of Uganda
- Governors of British Saint Vincent and the Grenadines