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The Right Honourable
Sir Thomas Upington
KCMG
Thomas Upington, from a portrait in Het Volksblad, 1883.
Prime Minister of the Cape Colony
In office
13 May 1884 – 24 November 1886
MonarchVictoria
GovernorSir Leicester Smyth
Sir Henry D'Oyley Torrens
Henry Augustus Smyth
Preceded byThomas Charles Scanlen
Succeeded byJohn Gordon Sprigg
Attorney-General of Cape Colony
In office
Jan 1896 – May 1898
Prime MinisterGordon Sprigg
Preceded byW P Schreiner
Succeeded byThomas Graham
In office
May 1884 – Jul 1890
Prime MinisterGordon Sprigg
Preceded byJames Leonard
Succeeded byJames Rose Innes
In office
Feb 1878 – Jan 1881
Prime MinisterGordon Sprigg
Preceded byAndries Stockenström
Succeeded byJames Leonard
Personal details
Born(1844-10-28)28 October 1844
Mallow, County Cork
United Kingdom
Died10 December 1898(1898-12-10) (aged 54)
Wynberg, Cape Town, Cape Colony
NationalityAnglo-Irish
SpouseMary Elizabeth Guerin
Children2 sons, 3 daughters
Alma materTrinity College, Dublin
OccupationPolitician, lawyer

Sir Thomas Upington KCMG (1844–1898), born in Cork, Ireland, was an administrator and politician of the Cape Colony.

He was briefly Prime Minister of the Cape Colony, between 1884 and 1886, during a period of extreme turbulence in the Cape's history.

The town of Upington in the Northern Cape is named after him, as was the short-lived Boer republic of Upingtonia.

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