Sir Thomas George Rutherford, KCSI, CIE (25 September 1886 – 5 August 1957) was a British administrator in India who served as

Governor of Bihar The governor of Bihar is a nominal head and representative of the President of India in the state of Bihar. The Governor is appointed by the President for a term of 5 years. Phagu Chauhan is the current governor of Bihar. Former President Zaki ...

from 1944 to 1946. Educated at

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, the

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, and

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, Rutherford entered the

Indian Civil Service The Indian Civil Service (ICS), officially known as the Imperial Civil Service, was the higher civil service of the British Empire in India during British rule in the period between 1858 and 1947. Its members ruled over more than 300 million ...

in 1910.

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