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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.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". He was Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal between 1882 and 1887.[1]

Thompson was appointed a CSI in 1877, a CIE in 1883 and knighted with the KCSI in 1885. [2]

He was president of the executive committee of the Calcutta International Exhibition (1883-1884).[3] He established the R.T. Girls' High School in Suri, Birbhum.

He died of pneumonia in Gibraltar.[4]

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