Coats or JBS Coats (8 July 1906 in Ayr, South Ayrshire, Scotland – 26 December 1979) was a theosophist, president of the Theosophical Society Adyar and bishop of the Liberal Catholic Church.
In 1932 he became a member of the T.S.
in London.
There he met Alice Bailey, C.
Jinarajadasa, Rukmini Devi Arundale and George Arundale.