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Name: COUTTS, Walter Fleming 'Wally' GCMG, MBE, Sir

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Birth Date: 30 Nov 1912 Aberdeen

Death Date: 4 Nov 1988 Perth, W. Australia

First Date: 1936

Last Date: 1963

Profession: DO Kenya 1936, DC 1947. Administrator of St. Vincent 1949. Governor of Uganda. Appointed as a DO in 1936. At Marsabit in 1939. Cr. CMG 1953. Secretariat Kenya 1946

Area: Marsabit

Married: In Nairobi 16 May 1942 Janet 'Bones' Elizabeth Jamieson b. 4 Mar 1915 Frinton on Sea, d. 25 July 1999 Perth, W. Australia

Children: David Fleming (1945); Jacqueline Janita (1943)

Book Reference: Habari 17, Debrett, Staff 39, Who's Who, Colonial, O&C, Foster, Wikipedia

School: Glasgow Academy and St. Andrews University, St. John's College, Cambridge 1935-36

General Information:

Habari 17 - 'I knew his wife before they were married. She was called "Boxer" being over six feet tall and very skinny; hence her name. Wally was over six feet. Can you imagine him as Governor, wearing his full uniform with plumed helmet (now making him well over seven feet) meeting some short ass Uganda Minister including H.R.H. King Freddie, who was very small.' (Source: Ian Dundas)
Who's Who - Minister for Education Labour and Lands, Kenya 1956-58, Chief Sec. 1958-61; Special Commissioner for African Elections 1955; Governor of Uganda 1961-62; Governor-Gen. and C in C Uganda 1962-63. Eventually retired to Australia
Telegraph - 17/11/1988 - Obituary

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