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James Thomason

British colonial governor
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James Thomason (born May 3, 1804, Great Shelford, near Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Eng.—died Sept. 27, 1853, Bareilly, India) was a British lieutenant governor of the North-Western Provinces in India and founder of a system of village schools. The son of a British clergyman stationed in Bengal, Thomason was educated in England, but he returned to India in 1822. He held numerous positions there, including magistrate-collector and settlement officer in Azamgarh (1832–37) and foreign secretary to the...

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