Walter Coutts

{{Short description|British colonial administrator}}

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| honorific_prefix = Sir

| name = Walter Coutts

| honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|GCMG|MBE}}

| image = Sir Walter Coutts.jpg

| caption = Coutts in 1962

| office1 = Governor-General of Uganda

| term_start1 = 9 October 1962

| term_end1 = 9 October 1963

| monarch1 = Elizabeth II

| primeminister1 = Milton Obote

| predecessor1 = himself
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| successor1 = position abolished

| office2 = Governor of Uganda

| term_start2 = 1961

| term_end2 = 1962

| monarch2 = Elizabeth II

| predecessor2 = Sir Frederick Crawford

| successor2 = himself
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| office3 = Administrator of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

| term_start3 = 1948

| term_end3 = 1955

| monarch3 = Elizabeth II

| governor3 = Sir Robert Arundell
Sir Edward Beetham

| predecessor3 = Ronald Herbert Garvey

| successor3 = Alexander Falconer Giles

| birth_date = {{birth date|1912|11|30|df=y}}

| death_date = {{death date and age|1988|11|4|1912|11|30|df=y}}

| profession = colonial administrator

| alma_mater = St John's College, Cambridge

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Sir Walter Fleming Coutts {{postnominals|country=GBR|GCMG|MBE}} (30 November 1912 – 4 November 1988)[https://books.google.com/books?id=D6HKAgAAQBAJ&dq=Walter+Fleming+Coutts+1912&pg=PA774 Profile of Walter Fleming Coutts] was a British colonial administrator and was Uganda's final Governor before independence, from 1961–1962. He was Governor-General of Uganda 1962–1963."Uganda, Republic of", in Heads of States and Governments Since 1945, Harris M. Lentz, ed. London: Routledge, 2014. He was chosen for this job because he had a reputation within the colonial office for supporting African nationalism and African independence movements."Uganda, Republic of", in Heads of States and Governments Since 1945, Harris M. Lentz, ed. London: Routledge, 2014.

He was educated at Glasgow Academy, the University of St Andrews and St John's College, Cambridge.‘COUTTS, Sir Walter (Fleming)’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016

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