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Walter Coutts

 

Sir Walter Fleming Coutts, GCMG, MBE (1912–1988) was a British colonial administrator and was Uganda's last Governor before independence, from 1961–1962. He was Governor-General of Uganda 1962–1963.

His bothers included Brigadier Frank Coutts and Ben Coutts

 

Colonial administrators and post-independence leaders in Uganda (1893–2000)

What is now Uganda consisted of several separate kingdoms and other polities before the twentieth century. Buganda, the most important of these, was occupied by the British East Africa Company in 1890 and became a provisional British protectorate in 1893 and a full protectorate the following year. In 1896 the protectorate was extended to the kingdoms of Bunyoro, Ankole, and Toro. The commissioners of Buganda (1893–1905) are listed below.

In 1905 Uganda became a British colony, with property laws which largely prevented European settlement. Uganda became internally self-governing in 1962 and independent from the UK later the same year. It became a republic in 1963. Below are listed the commissioners and governors of Uganda (1905–62), followed by the chief minister and prime ministers (1961–2); after these are details of the governor-general and the prime minister of Uganda (1962–3).

Sir Frederick Mutesa became the first president of Uganda in 1963. In 1966 the prime minister, Milton Obote, suspended the constitution and dismissed Mutesa as president. Uganda then adopted a presidential form of government under Obote, and the traditional kingdoms were abolished in 1967. The presidents of Uganda (1963–79) and the prime minister (1963–6) are listed below.

In 1979 a Tanzanian invasion ousted the dictator Idi Amin; Tanzanian occupation lasted until 1981. The office of prime minister was revived in 1980, but Uganda retained a presidential form of government. Obote again became president in 1980. In 1985 his government was overthrown in a military coup, but General Okello's government was in turn ousted the following year by Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army, which instituted a form of ‘non-party’ democracy. Below are listed the heads of state and government for the period 1979–2000.

Commissioners of Buganda (1893–1905)

1893 (April–Nov)

Sir Gerald Herbert Portal (1858–1894)

1901–1905

Sir James Hayes Sadler (1851–1922)

Commissioners and governors of Uganda (1905–1962)

1905–1909

Sir Henry Hesketh Joudou Bell (1864–1952); commissioner to 1907

1957–1961

Sir Frederick Crawford (1906–1978)

1961–1962

Sir Walter Fleming Coutts (1912–1988)

 

Chief minister and prime ministers of Uganda (1961–1962)

1961–1962

Mugumba Benedicto Kiwanuka (1922–1972); chief minister to March 1962, prime minister thereafter; Democratic Party

1962 (April–Oct)

(Apolo) Milton Obote (1925–2005); prime minister; Uganda People's Congress

Governor-general of Uganda (1962–1963)

1962–1963

Sir Walter Fleming Coutts (1912–1988)

 

Prime minister of Uganda (1962–1963)

1962–1963

(Apolo) Milton Obote (1925–2005); Uganda People's Congress

Presidents of Uganda (1963–1979)

1963–1966

Sir (Edward) Frederick Mutesa [see Mutesa II (1924–1969)]

1966–1971

(Apolo) Milton Obote (1925–2005); Uganda People's Congress

1971–1979

Idi Amin (c.1924–2003)

 

 

BRITISH COLONIAL GOVERNORS SINCE 1900

 

 

Note: Honours and decorations are given for postholders but these are not

necessarily those held whilst the individual was in post.

 

 

 

UGANDA(from 1910 until 1962):

 

Sir Walter F. Coutts, G.C.M.G., M.B.E.: 1961-1962  and last

 

 

 

KENYA

 

(until 1963; EAST AFRICAN PROTECTORATE from 1905 until

1920):

 

Sir Walter F. Coutts, G.C.M.G., M.B.E.: 1958-1961

 

Sir Eric N. Griffith-Jones, K.B.E., C.M.G.: 1961-1963 – and last

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