Thomas Charles Scanlen

Sir
Thomas Charles Scanlen
Prime Minister of the Cape Colony
In office
9 May 1881 – 12 May 1884
MonarchVictoria
GovernorHercules Robinson
Preceded byJohn Gordon Sprigg
Succeeded byThomas Upington
Personal details
Born(1834-07-09)9 July 1834
Albany, Cape Colony
Died15 December 1912(1912-12-15) (aged 78)
Salisbury, BSAC Rhodesia
NationalityBritish
Spouse(s)Emma Thackwray,
Sarah Ann Dennison
OccupationPolitician

Sir Thomas Charles Scanlen KCMG (9 July 1834 – 15 December 1912) was a politician and administrator of the Cape Colony.

He was briefly Prime Minister of the Cape Colony, from 1881 to 1884, during an especially turbulent period in the Cape's history, dominated by conflicts such as the Basuto Gun War. He was also the Cape's first locally-born Prime Minister.