Sir Frederick Crawford KCMG OBE (9 March 1906 – 27 May 1978) was a British colonial administrator.
He believed that Uganda was far more prepared for independence than Tanganyika had been, with much more infrastructure, far more positions in the government already filled by Africans, and a more diversified economy.
[3] As Governor, Crawford called together a constitutional committee of African leaders from within Uganda to begin crafting a constitution that Uganda would ultimately have as an independent country "sometime within the next decade.
"[4] When locally elected leaders of Uganda's government, specifically Milton Obote and the honourable A.G. Mehta, asked for more self-government, Crawford agreed and granted it.
His passport was withdrawn by the British government on 9 May 1968, while he was visiting London, because of his implicit support for Rhodesia's 1965 Unilateral Declaration of Independence, which Britain and the United Nations had deemed illegal.