# Rivers Thompson

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{{Infobox officeholder
| name             = Sir Rivers Thompson
| honorific_suffix = [KCSI](/source/Order_of_the_Star_of_India) [CIE](/source/Order_of_the_Indian_Empire)
| image            = Sir Augustus Rivers Thompson.png
| office           = [Chief Commissioner of Burma](/source/List_of_colonial_governors_of_Burma)
| term_start       = 14 April 1875
| term_end         = 30 March 1878
| monarch          =
| predecessor      = [Ashley Eden](/source/Ashley_Eden)
| successor        = [Charles Umpherston Aitchison](/source/Charles_Umpherston_Aitchison)
| office2          = [Lieutenant Governor of Bengal](/source/List_of_governors_of_Bengal_Presidency)
| term_start2      = 1882
| term_end2        = 1887
| monarch2         = 
| predecessor2     = [Ashley Eden](/source/Ashley_Eden)
| successor2       = [Steuart Colvin Bayley](/source/Steuart_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](/source/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>
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| relations        = 
| children         = 
| alma_mater       = 
| occupation       = [Administrator](/source/Administrator_of_the_Government) 
}}

'''Sir Augustus Rivers Thompson''' [KCSI](/source/Order_of_the_Star_of_India) [CIE](/source/Order_of_the_Indian_Empire) (12 September 1829 – 27 November 1890) was a British colonial administrator who served as [Chief Commissioner of the British Crown Colony of Burma](/source/British_rule_in_Burma) from April 1875 to March 1878.{{citation needed|date=May 2012}} He was [Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal](/source/List_of_governors_of_Bengal_Presidency) 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](/source/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](/source/R.T._Girls'_High_School) in Suri, Birbhum.

He died of pneumonia in [Gibraltar](/source/Gibraltar).<ref name="death"/>

==References==
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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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|after= [Charles Umpherston Aitchinson](/source/Charles_Umpherston_Aitchinson)}}
{{succession box|title=[Lieutenant-governor of Bengal](/source/List_of_British_rulers_and_high_officials_in_Bengal)|years=1882–1887|before=[Sir Ashley Eden](/source/Ashley_Eden)
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