* 26 May 1885, † 16 December 1946
William Barron Coutts was born on 26 May 1885 in Kinghorn, Fife, Scotland. William Coutts graduated from Edinburgh University and after a period in the Army in World War I he became interested in the mathematical theory of artillery. He became a Professor at the Military College of Science at Shrivenham. William Barron Coutts died on 16 December 1946 in Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford.
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