Thomas Upington

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
Monarch	Victoria
Governor	Sir Leicester Smyth Sir Henry D'Oyley Torrens Henry Augustus Smyth
Preceded by	Thomas Charles Scanlen
Succeeded by	John Gordon Sprigg
Attorney-General of Cape Colony
In office Jan 1896 – May 1898
Prime Minister	Gordon Sprigg
Preceded by	W P Schreiner
Succeeded by	Thomas Graham
In office May 1884 – Jul 1890
Prime Minister	Gordon Sprigg
Preceded by	James Leonard
Succeeded by	James Rose Innes
In office Feb 1878 – Jan 1881
Prime Minister	Gordon Sprigg
Preceded by	Andries Stockenström
Succeeded by	James Leonard
Personal details
Born	(1844-10-28)28 October 1844 Mallow, County Cork United Kingdom
Died	10 December 1898(1898-12-10) (aged 54) Wynberg, Cape Town, Cape Colony
Nationality	Anglo-Irish
Spouse	Mary Elizabeth Guerin
Children	2 sons, 3 daughters
Alma mater	Trinity College, Dublin
Occupation	Politician, 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.