Sir Thomas George Rutherford | |
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Governor of Bihar | |
In office 24 April 1944 – 12 May 1946 | |
Preceded by | Sir Francis Mudie |
Succeeded by | Thomas Alexander Stewart |
In office 3 February 1943-6 September 1943 | |
Preceded by | Nityanand Kanungo |
Succeeded by | Sir Francis Mudie |
Sir Thomas George Rutherford, KCSI, CIE (25 September 1886 – 5 August 1957) was a British administrator in India who served as Governor of Bihar from 1944 to 1946.[1][2][3] Rutherford is best known to the Indian people as the British general who killed Alluri Sitarama Raju and suppressed the Manyam Rebellion.[4]
Educated at George Watson's College, the University of Edinburgh, and University College, London, Rutherford entered the Indian Civil Service in 1910.[5]