Mathabarsingh Thapa

Prime Minister of Nepal

1798 A.D. Borlang, Gorkha

17 May 1845 A.D. (aged 47) Hanuman Dhoka Palace, Kathmandu

November 1843 A.D. – 17 May 1845 A.D.

First prime minister of Nepal Mathabar Singh Thapa listen  (help ·info ) (Nepali: माथवरसिंह थापा , born 1798, Borlang, Gorkha – 17 May 1845, Basantapur, Kathmandu), also spelled Mathbar, Mathawar, Mathavar, variantly called Matabar Singh Thapa (Nepali: मातवरसिंह थापा ), was the Prime Minister of Nepal and the Commander-In-Chief of the Nepalese Army from 1843 December 25 – 1845 May 17, until he was murdered by his nephew Jung Bahadur Rana. He was the first Mukhtiyar to title himself as a Prime Minister, as per the British convention. He was the nephew of Bhimsen Thapa, who was falsely sentenced for imprisonment for the death of King Rajendra's six months old son. Mathabar Singh Thapa fled to Shimla after the execution of Bhimsen Thapa, to avoid his own execution as he was Bhimsen's nephew. Four years later, the second queen of Rajendra, Queen Rajya Lakshmi, called him back and installed him as the Mukhtiyar, paving the way for him to eventually title himself as the Prime Minister.. Mathabar Singh, however, enraged the queen by refusing to make her son, Ranendra Bikram, the king. The queen, in turn, had him shot by his own nephew Janga Bahadur Rana and thereby making him the last dynast of the Thapa dynasty.