{{Short description|Governor of Bihar}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2024}} {{Use Indian English|date=August 2024}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Sir Thomas George Rutherford | birth_name = | caption = | image = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | office = Governor of Bihar | appointer = | nominator = | term_start = 24 April 1944 | term_end = 12 May 1946 | predecessor = Sir Francis Mudie | successor = Thomas Alexander Stewart | office2 = | term2 = 3 February 1943 – 6 September 1943 | predecessor2 = Nityanand Kanungo | successor2 = Sir Francis Mudie | party = | other_party = | spouse = | children = | website = | footnotes = | date = | year = | source = }}
'''Sir Thomas George Rutherford''', KCSI, CIE (25 September 1886 – 5 August 1957) was a British colonial administrator who served as the governor of Bihar from 1944 to 1946.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://governor.bih.nic.in/OldGovernors.htm | title=List of Governors Bihar | publisher=Governor of Bihar | accessdate=4 January 2021}}</ref><ref name="(India)Choudhury1957">{{cite book|author1=Bihar (India)|author2=Pranab Chandra Roy Choudhury|title=Bihar District Gazetteers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rSpuAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=5 January 2021|year=1957|publisher=Superintendent, Secretariat Press, Bihar|page=504}}</ref><ref name="Epstein2016">{{cite book|author=Mortimer Epstein|title=The Statesman's Year-Book: Statistical and Historical Annual of the States of the World for the Year 1943|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ndbMDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA146|accessdate=5 January 2021|date=27 December 2016|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-0-230-27072-5|pages=146–}}</ref> Educated at George Watson's College, the University of Edinburgh, and University College, London, Rutherford entered the Indian Civil Service in 1910.<ref>{{Who's Who|id=242583|title=Rutherford, Sir Thomas George|type=was}}</ref> He played a major role in the suppression of the Rampa Rebellion of 1922, which was led by Alluri Sitarama Raju.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-08-27 |title=Alluri Sitarama Raju, Unique Revolutionary, Remembered On Rampa Adivasi Revolt's Centenary{{!}} Countercurrents |url=https://countercurrents.org/2022/08/alluri-sitarama-raju-unique-revolutionary-remembered-on-rampa-adivasi-revolts-centenary/ |access-date=2023-07-04 |website=countercurrents.org |language=en-US}}</ref>
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Category:Governors of Bihar Category:Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Category:Alumni of University College London Category:Indian Civil Service (British India) officers Category:Knights Commander of the Order of the Star of India Category:Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire Category:People educated at George Watson's College Category:1886 births Category:1957 deaths
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