Walter Harold Covert

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Walter Harold Covert
16th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia
In office October 5, 1931 – April 7, 1937
Monarch	George V Edward VIII George VI
Governor General	The Earl of Bessborough The Lord Tweedsmuir
Premier	Gordon Sidney Harrington Angus Lewis Macdonald
Preceded by	Frank Stanfield
Succeeded by	Robert Irwin
Personal details
Born	(1865-09-13)September 13, 1865 Musquash, Nova Scotia
Died	May 13, 1949(1949-05-13) (aged 83) Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
Nationality	Canadian
Political party	Conservative Party
Spouse(s)	Mary Jane "Minnie" Covert (née McColough)
Occupation	businessman and lawyer
Profession	Politician

Walter Harold Covert, (September 13, 1865-May 13, 1949), was a corporate lawyer based in Nova Scotia, influential member of the Conservative Party and served as the 16th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia^[1] from 1931 to 1937.

As well as head of a large Halifax law firm, Covert served as president of Nova Scotia Light and Power.^[1]

He was the uncle and father-in-law of Frank Manning Covert.^[2]

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 The thousandth man: a biography of James McGregor Stewart By Barry Cahill, Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History page 153
↑ Fifty years in the practice of law By Frank Manning Covert, Barry Cahill

v t e Lieutenant Governors of Nova Scotia

Post-Confederation (1867-present)	Williams Doyle Howe Archibald Richey McLelan Daly Jones D. Fraser McGregor MacKeen M. Grant Douglas Tory Stanfield Covert Irwin Mathers Kendall McCurdy A. Fraser Plow MacKeen Oland Gosse Shaffner Abraham Crouse Kinley Freeman Francis J. Grant

Lieutenant-Governors before Confederation (1786-1867)	Parr Bulkeley Wentworth Prévost (Croke) Sherbrooke Smyth Dalhousie Kempt Jeffrey Maitland Jeffrey C. Campbell Falkland Dickson Harvey Bazalgette LeMarchant Phipps Doyle MacDonnell Williams

Lieutenant-Governors of Cape Breton Island (1784-1820)	Desbarres Macarmick Mathews Ogilvie Murray Despard Nepean Swayne Ainslie

Governors before Confederation (1710-1786)	Vetch Nicholson Caulfeild Vetch Caulfeild Philipps Doucett Armstrong Cosby Mascarene Cornwallis Hopson Lawrence Ellis Belcher Wilmot W. Campbell Green Francklin Legge Francklin Arbuthnot Hughes Hamond Parr

Lieutenant-Governors who served in the absence of Governors are listed in parentheses. Acting administrators are listed in italics.

Persondata
Name	Covert, Walter
Alternative names
Short description	Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia
Date of birth	September 13, 1865
Place of birth	Musquash, Nova Scotia,
Date of death	May 13, 1949
Place of death	Dartmouth, Nova Scotia

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