Sir
Rivers Thompson
Chief Commissioner of Burma
In office
14 April 1875  30 March 1878
Preceded byAshley Eden
Succeeded byCharles Umpherston Aitchison
Lieutenant Governor of Bengal
In office
1882–1887
Preceded byAshley Eden
Succeeded bySteuart Colvin Bayley
Personal details
Born
Augustus Rivers Thompson

(1829-09-12)12 September 1829
Died27 November 1890(1890-11-27) (aged 61)
Gibraltar[1]
NationalityBritish
OccupationAdministrator

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. He was Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal between 1882 and 1887.[2]

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]

References

  1. 1 2 "Death of Sir Rivers Thompson". Homeward Mail from India, China and the East. 4 December 1890. p. 16. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  2. Buckland, Charles Edward (1901). Bengal Under The Lieutenant-Governors. Vol. 2. Calcutta: S. K. Lahiri & Co. p. 760.
  3. "The Order of the Star of India". The Times. London. 6 January 1885. p. 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.

Further reading

  • Laurie, William Ferguson Beatson (1999) [1888]. Distinguished Anglo-Indians (Reprinted ed.). New Delhi: Asian Educational Services. pp. 205–211. ISBN 9788120613058.


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