page_title: Thomas Upington
section_title: Term as Prime Minister (1884–1886)
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas Upington / Political career (1878-1898) / Term as Prime Minister (1884–1886)
context_page_description: Sir Thomas Upington KCMG, 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.
context_section_description: He became the fourth Prime Minister of the Cape Colony in 1884, after the growing Afrikaner Bond Party compelled the government of Premier Thomas Charles Scanlen to retire. He was appointed to form a government by the powerful Afrikaner Bond, but held office for only two turbulent and strife-torn years, in what subsequently became known as the "Warming-pan" Ministry.
caption: Map of the Transvaal – Bechuanaland border, showing the tiny Boer state of Stellaland. Goshen, even smaller, is located to its north-east.
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