Sir Walter Fleming Coutts (30 November 1912 – 4 November 1988) was a British colonial administrator and was

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's final Governor before independence, from 1961–1962. He was

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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 Glasgow Academy, the

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and

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.‘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 {{UK-politician-stub

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