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Rivers Thompson

Rivers Thompson

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Sir Augustus Rivers Thompson KCSI CIE (12 September 1829 – 27 November 1890) was a British colonial administrator who served as Chief Commissioner of the British Crown Colony of Burma from April 1875 to March 1878.[citation needed] He was Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal between 1882 and 1887.[2]

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Thompson was appointed a CSI in 1877, a CIE in 1883 and knighted with the KCSI in 1885. [3]

He was president of the executive committee of the Calcutta International Exhibition (1883-1884).[4] He established the R.T. Girls' High School in Suri, Birbhum.

He died of pneumonia in Gibraltar.[1]

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  1. [1]
    "Death of Sir Rivers Thompson". Homeward Mail from India, China and the East. 4 December 1890. p. 16. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  2. [2]
    Buckland, Charles Edward (1901). Bengal Under The Lieutenant-Governors. Vol. 2. Calcutta: S. K. Lahiri & Co. p. 760.
  3. [3]
    "The Order of the Star of India". The Times. London. 6 January 1885. p. 4.
  4. [4]
    Pelle, Findling, ed. (2008). "Appendix C:Fair Officials". Encyclopedia of World's Fairs and Expositions. McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 418–419. ISBN 978-0-7864-3416-9.

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