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'''Sir John Perronet Thompson''', KCSI, KCIE (8 March 1873 – 8 August 1935) was a British administrator in India.<ref name=Maclagan>{{cite journal |last1=Maclagan |first1=E. D. |title=Sir John Thompson |journal=Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society |date=October 1935 |volume=67 |issue=4 |pages=786–787 |doi=10.1017/S0035869X00096003 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-royal-asiatic-society/article/sir-john-thompson/CF80A84A7F306E87D0C024833D5B6BB3 |language=en |issn=1474-0591}}</ref> A member of the [[Indian Civil Service]], he was secretary to [[Michael O'Dwyer|Sir Michael O'Dwyer]] in 1919.<ref name=Wagner2019>{{cite book |last1=Wagner |first1=Kim A.|author-link=Kim A. Wagner |title=Amritsar 1919: An empire of fear & the making of a massacre |date=2019 |publisher=Yale University Press|page=70|location=New Haven & London |isbn=978-0-300-24546-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bziIDwAAQBAJ|language=en}}</ref> From 1922 to 1927, he was Political Secretary to the Government of India, and from 1928 to 1932, he was [[Chief Commissioner of Delhi]].<ref name=Maclagan/><ref>{{Cite web |title=Jan 18, 1935, page 8 - The Daily Telegraph at Newspapers.com™ |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/803620535/ |access-date=2026-02-17 |website=Newspapers.com |language=en-US}}</ref><br />
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==Early life and education==<br />
John Thompson was the second son of Vincent Thomas Thompson, Assistant Recorder of Leeds.<ref name=Telegraph9Aug1935>{{Cite web |title=Aug 09, 1935, page 13 - The Daily Telegraph at Newspapers.com™ |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/786546440/ |access-date=2026-02-17 |website=Newspapers.com |language=en-US}}</ref> He was educated at Leeds Grammar School and [[Trinity College, Cambridge]].<ref name=Maclagan/> At Cambridge he was [[President of the Cambridge Union]].<br />
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==Personal and family==<br />
In 1901 Thompson married Ada Lucia Tyrell, daughter of Dr R.Y. Tyrell, Senior Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. They had three sons and two daughters.<ref name=Telegraph9Aug1935/><br />
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==Death==<br />
Thompson died on 8 August 1935 in a nursing home, following an operation for [[appendicitis]].<ref name=Telegraph9Aug1935/> He left £11,322 gross.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nov 04, 1935, page 2 - Western Morning News at Newspapers.com™ |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/816144891/ |access-date=2026-02-17 |website=Newspapers.com |language=en-US}}</ref><br />
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==Selected publications==<br />
*{{cite book |title=India. The White Paper |date=1933 |publisher=Macmillan & Co. |location=London |url=https://search.worldcat.org/title/India.-The-White-Paper-i.e.-%22Proposals-for-Indian-Constitutional-Reform%22-presented-to-Parliament-March-1933-etc/oclc/503893860 |language=en}}<br />
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