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Sir Walter Fleming Coutts (30 November 1912 – 4 November 1988) was a British colonial administrator and was
Uganda Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the ...
's final Governor before independence, from 1961–1962. He was
Governor-General of Uganda This is a list of the heads of state of Uganda, from the independence of Uganda in 1962 to the present day. From 1962 to 1963, the head of state under the Constitution of 1962 was the queen of Uganda, Elizabeth II, who was also the monarch of ...
1962–1963. He was chosen for this job because he had a reputation within the colonial office for supporting African nationalism and African independence movements. He was educated at
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, the
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and
St John's College, Cambridge St John's College, formally the College of St John the Evangelist in the University of Cambridge, is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge, founded by the House of Tudor, Tudor matriarch L ...
.‘COUTTS, Sir Walter (Fleming)’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016


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- the surname Coutts is a
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of this
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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 {{UK-politician-stub