{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Sir Rivers Thompson | honorific_suffix = KCSI CIE | image = Sir Augustus Rivers Thompson.png | office = Chief Commissioner of Burma | term_start = 14 April 1875 | term_end = 30 March 1878 | monarch = | predecessor = Ashley Eden | successor = Charles Umpherston Aitchison | office2 = Lieutenant Governor of Bengal | term_start2 = 1882 | term_end2 = 1887 | monarch2 = | predecessor2 = Ashley Eden | successor2 = Steuart Colvin Bayley | birth_name = Augustus Rivers Thompson | birth_date = {{Birth date|1829|09|12|df=y}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age|1890|11|27|1829|09|12|df=y}} | death_place = Gibraltar<ref name="death">{{cite news |title=Death of Sir Rivers Thompson |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001712/18901204/038/0016 |access-date=4 February 2021 |work=Homeward Mail from India, China and the East |date=4 December 1890 |page=16 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> | spouse = <!---{{marriage||}}---> | relations = | children = | alma_mater = | occupation = Administrator }}
'''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|date=May 2012}} He was Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal between 1882 and 1887.<ref>{{cite book |title=Bengal Under The Lieutenant-Governors |url=https://archive.org/details/bengalunderlieut02buckiala |first=Charles Edward |last=Buckland |volume=2 |page=[https://archive.org/details/bengalunderlieut02buckiala/page/n209 760] |location=Calcutta |publisher=S. K. Lahiri & Co |year=1901}}</ref>
Thompson was appointed a CSI in 1877, a CIE in 1883 and knighted with the KCSI in 1885.<ref>{{cite news | title = The Order of the Star of India | pages = 4 | newspaper = The Times | location = London | date = 6 January 1885 }}</ref>
He was president of the executive committee of the Calcutta International Exhibition (1883-1884).<ref name="refFPp418">{{cite encyclopedia | title = Appendix C:Fair Officials | encyclopedia = Encyclopedia of World's Fairs and Expositions | pages=418–419 | editor-last = Pelle | editor-first = Findling | publisher = McFarland & Company, Inc | year = 2008 | isbn = 978-0-7864-3416-9 }}</ref> He established the R.T. Girls' High School in Suri, Birbhum.
He died of pneumonia in Gibraltar.<ref name="death"/>
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==Further reading== *{{cite book |title=Distinguished Anglo-Indians |first=William Ferguson Beatson |last=Laurie |edition=Reprinted |publisher=Asian Educational Services |orig-year=1888 |year=1999 |location=New Delhi |isbn=9788120613058 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0kSMosMLUMwC |pages=205–211}}
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