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<span class="vector-toc-numb">3.1</span> <span>Minister of Local Administration</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Minister_of_Local_Administration-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sinhala_Maha_Sabha" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sinhala_Maha_Sabha"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Sinhala Maha Sabha</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sinhala_Maha_Sabha-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-First_Cabinet_Minister_of_Health_and_Local_Government" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#First_Cabinet_Minister_of_Health_and_Local_Government"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>First Cabinet Minister of Health and Local Government</span> </div> </a> <ul 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<span>Electoral history</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Electoral_history-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">14</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">15</span> <span>Notes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">16</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul 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W. R. D. Bandaranaike – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Bandaranaike" title="Solomon Bandaranaike – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Solomon Bandaranaike" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._W._R._D._Bandaranaike" title="S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Bandaranaike" title="Solomon Bandaranaike – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Solomon Bandaranaike" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3._%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%88._%D8%A2%D8%B1._%D8%AF%DB%8C._%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%87" title="اس. دابلیو. آر. دی. باندرانایکه – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="اس. دابلیو. آر. دی. باندرانایکه" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Bandaranaike" title="Solomon Bandaranaike – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Solomon Bandaranaike" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%86%94%EB%A1%9C%EB%AA%AC_%EB%B0%98%EB%8B%A4%EB%9D%BC%EB%82%98%EC%9D%B4%EC%BC%80" title="솔로몬 반다라나이케 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="솔로몬 반다라나이케" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8D%D5%B8%D5%AC%D5%B8%D5%B4%D5%B8%D5%B6_%D4%B2%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%A4%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%A1%D5%AB%D5%AF%D5%A5" title="Սոլոմոն Բանդարանաիկե – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Սոլոմոն Բանդարանաիկե" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_West_Ridgeway_Dias_Bandaranaike" title="Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Bandaranaike" title="Solomon Bandaranaike – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Solomon Bandaranaike" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Bandaranaike" title="Solomon Bandaranaike – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Solomon Bandaranaike" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%9F_%D7%91%D7%A0%D7%93%D7%A8%D7%A0%D7%90%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%94" title="סולומון בנדרנאיקה – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="סולומון בנדרנאיקה" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A1%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9A%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9B%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9C_%E1%83%91%E1%83%90%E1%83%9C%E1%83%93%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%90%E1%83%9C%E1%83%90%E1%83%98%E1%83%99%E1%83%94" title="სოლომონ ბანდარანაიკე – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="სოლომონ ბანდარანაიკე" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B5" title="Соломон Бандаранаике – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Соломон Бандаранаике" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%8E%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D.%E0%B4%A1%E0%B4%AC%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B2%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%82.%E0%B4%86%E0%B5%BC.%E0%B4%A1%E0%B4%BF._%E0%B4%AC%E0%B4%A3%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A1%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%A8%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%86" title="എസ്.ഡബ്ലിയൂ.ആർ.ഡി. 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class="fn" style="font-size:125%;">S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader" style="font-size:125%; font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-size:85%;">සොලොමන් වෙස්ට් රිජ්වේ ඩයස් බණ්ඩාරනායක</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">சாலமன் வெஸ்ட் ரிட்ஜ்வே டயஸ் பண்டாரநாயக்கா</span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Official_Photographic_Portrait_of_S.W.R.D.Bandaranayaka_(1899-1959).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Official_Photographic_Portrait_of_S.W.R.D.Bandaranayaka_%281899-1959%29.jpg/220px-Official_Photographic_Portrait_of_S.W.R.D.Bandaranayaka_%281899-1959%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="276" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Official_Photographic_Portrait_of_S.W.R.D.Bandaranayaka_%281899-1959%29.jpg/330px-Official_Photographic_Portrait_of_S.W.R.D.Bandaranayaka_%281899-1959%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Official_Photographic_Portrait_of_S.W.R.D.Bandaranayaka_%281899-1959%29.jpg/440px-Official_Photographic_Portrait_of_S.W.R.D.Bandaranayaka_%281899-1959%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4740" data-file-height="5947" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">4th <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Sri_Lanka" title="Prime Minister of Sri Lanka">Prime Minister of Ceylon</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />12 April 1956 – 26 September 1959</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Monarch</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_II" title="Elizabeth II">Elizabeth II</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Governor General</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Ernest_Goonetilleke" class="mw-redirect" title="Oliver Ernest Goonetilleke">Oliver Ernest Goonetilleke</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_Kotelawala" title="John Kotelawala">John Kotelawala</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Wijeyananda_Dahanayake" title="Wijeyananda Dahanayake">Wijeyananda Dahanayake</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">2nd <a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_Opposition_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Leader of the Opposition (Sri Lanka)">Leader of the Opposition</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />9 June 1952 – 18 February 1956</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Dudley_Senanayake" title="Dudley Senanayake">Dudley Senanayake</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/N._M._Perera" title="N. M. Perera">N. M. Perera</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">N. M. Perera</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Freedom_Party" title="Sri Lanka Freedom Party">Leader of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />2 September 1951 – 26 September 1959</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Position established</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/C._P._de_Silva" title="C. P. de Silva">C. P. de Silva</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">3rd <a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_House_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Leader of the House (Sri Lanka)">Leader of the House</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />26 September 1947 – 12 July 1951</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/D._S._Senanayake" title="D. S. Senanayake">D. S. Senanayake</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/D._S._Senanayake" title="D. S. Senanayake">D. S. Senanayake</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_Kotelawala" title="John Kotelawala">John Kotelawala</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Health_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Ministry of Health (Sri Lanka)">Minister of Health and Local Government</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />26 September 1947 – 12 July 1951</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/D._S._Senanayake" title="D. S. Senanayake">D. S. Senanayake</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Position established</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Dudley_Senanayake" title="Dudley Senanayake">Dudley Senanayake</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Member of the <span style="display: inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Ceylon_Parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Ceylon Parliament">Ceylon Parliament</a></span><br />for <a href="/wiki/Attanagalla_Electoral_District" title="Attanagalla Electoral District">Attanagalla</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />14 October 1947 – 26 September 1959</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Constituency established</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/James_Peter_Obeyesekere_III" title="James Peter Obeyesekere III">James Obeyesekere</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1899-01-08</span>)</span>8 January 1899<br /><a href="/wiki/Colombo" title="Colombo">Colombo</a>, <a href="/wiki/British_Ceylon" title="British Ceylon">British Ceylon</a> (present-day <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka" title="Sri Lanka">Sri Lanka</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap">26 September 1959<span style="display:none">(1959-09-26)</span> (aged 60)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Colombo" title="Colombo">Colombo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dominion_of_Ceylon" title="Dominion of Ceylon">Ceylon</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Manner of death</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Assassination_of_S._W._R._D._Bandaranaike" title="Assassination of S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike">Assassination</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/United_National_Party" title="United National Party">United National Party</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1946–1951)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Freedom_Party" title="Sri Lanka Freedom Party">Sri Lanka Freedom Party</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1951–1959)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sirimavo_Bandaranaike" title="Sirimavo Bandaranaike">Sirima Ratwatte</a> (m. 1940)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sunethra_Bandaranaike" title="Sunethra Bandaranaike">Sunethra</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Chandrika_Kumaratunga" title="Chandrika Kumaratunga">Chandrika</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Anura_Bandaranaike" title="Anura Bandaranaike">Anura</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parent</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Solomon_Dias_Bandaranaike" title="Solomon Dias Bandaranaike">Solomon Dias Bandaranaike</a> (father)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Relatives</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Panini_Ilangakoon" title="Panini Ilangakoon">Panini Ilangakoon</a> (cousin)<br /><a href="/wiki/James_Peter_Obeyesekere_II" title="James Peter Obeyesekere II">James Peter Obeyesekere II</a> (cousin)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Christ_Church,_Oxford" title="Christ Church, Oxford">Christ Church, Oxford</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">BA</a>)<br /><a href="/wiki/Inns_of_Court_School_of_Law" class="mw-redirect" title="Inns of Court School of Law">Inner Temple</a> (<a href="/wiki/Legal_Practice_Course" title="Legal Practice Course">LPC</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://swrdbandaranaike.lk">Official website</a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike</b><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>alt 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (8 January 1899 – 26 September 1959), also known as "The Silver Bell of Asia" (ආසියාවේ රිදී සීනුව), was a Ceylonese statesman who served as the fourth <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Ceylon" class="mw-redirect" title="Prime Minister of Ceylon">Prime Minister</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Dominion_of_Ceylon" title="Dominion of Ceylon">Dominion of Ceylon</a> (now <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka" title="Sri Lanka">Sri Lanka</a>), serving from 1956 until <a href="/wiki/Assassination_of_S._W._R._D._Bandaranaike" title="Assassination of S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike">his assassination</a>. The founder of the <a href="/wiki/Left-wing_politics" title="Left-wing politics">left-wing</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sinhalese_nationalist" class="mw-redirect" title="Sinhalese nationalist">Sinhalese nationalist</a> <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Freedom_Party" title="Sri Lanka Freedom Party">Sri Lanka Freedom Party</a>, his tenure saw the country's first left-wing reforms. </p><p>Born to a <a href="/wiki/Bandaranaike_family" title="Bandaranaike family">wealthy, political family</a>, he studied <a href="/wiki/Philosophy,_politics_and_economics" title="Philosophy, politics and economics">philosophy, politics, and economics</a> at <a href="/wiki/Christ_Church,_Oxford" title="Christ Church, Oxford">Christ Church, Oxford</a>, and was <a href="/wiki/Call_to_the_bar" title="Call to the bar">called to the bar</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Inner_Temple" title="Inner Temple">Inner Temple</a>. Returning to Ceylon, he entered local politics by joining the <a href="/wiki/Ceylon_National_Congress" title="Ceylon National Congress">Ceylon National Congress</a>. Having been elected to the <a href="/wiki/Colombo_Municipal_Council" title="Colombo Municipal Council">Colombo Municipal Council</a> in 1926, he was elected from his <a href="/wiki/Family_seat" title="Family seat">family seat</a> in Veyangoda to the <a href="/wiki/State_Council_of_Ceylon" title="State Council of Ceylon">State Council of Ceylon</a> for two terms between 1931 and 1947, while serving in the second term as Minister of Local Administration in the <a href="/wiki/Second_Board_of_Ministers_of_Ceylon" title="Second Board of Ministers of Ceylon">Board of Ministers</a>. Having founded the <a href="/wiki/Sinhala_Maha_Sabha" title="Sinhala Maha Sabha">Sinhala Maha Sabha</a> in 1936 on Sinhalese nationalist lines advocating for <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_independence_movement" title="Sri Lankan independence movement">self-rule in Ceylon</a>, he joined <a href="/wiki/D._S._Senanayake" title="D. S. Senanayake">D. S. Senanayake</a> by dissolving the Sinhala Maha Sabha and merging it with the <a href="/wiki/United_National_Party" title="United National Party">United National Party</a> at its formation in 1947. He was elected to the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Representatives_of_Ceylon" class="mw-redirect" title="House of Representatives of Ceylon">House of Representatives</a> in 1947 representing the United National Party from <a href="/wiki/Attanagalla" title="Attanagalla">Attanagalla</a>, which would become the political seat of <a href="/wiki/Bandaranaike_family" title="Bandaranaike family">his family</a> for the next fifty years. Since the Sinhala Maha Sabha formed the largest segment of the United National Party, D. S. Senanayake appointed Bandaranaike as <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Health_(Sri_Lanka)" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister of Health (Sri Lanka)">Minister of Health and Local Government</a> and he was elected as the <a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_House_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Leader of the House (Sri Lanka)">Leader of the House</a>. Following several disagreements, Bandaranaike resigned from the government and <a href="/wiki/Crossing_the_floor" title="Crossing the floor">crossed the floor</a> to the opposition, forming the Sri Lanka Freedom Party in 1951. Following D. S. Senanayake's sudden death and the elections that followed, Bandaranaike was elected <a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_Opposition_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Leader of the Opposition (Sri Lanka)">leader of the opposition</a>. Mustering a powerful coalition called the <a href="/wiki/Mahajana_Eksath_Peramuna_(1956)" title="Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (1956)">Mahajana Eksath Peramuna</a> and contesting on the lines of Sinhalese nationalism and socialism, he was able to achieve a landslide victory over the United National Party in the general elections in 1956 thereby becoming the fourth Prime Minister of Ceylon. His tenure saw some of the first left wing reforms instituted by the Freedom Party in Sri Lanka such as the nationalizing <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Transport_Board" title="Sri Lanka Transport Board">bus services</a> and introducing legislation to prohibit caste based discrimination. Bandaranaike removed British naval and air bases in Ceylon and established diplomatic missions with a number of communist states. He implemented a new language policy, the <a href="/wiki/Sinhala_Only_Act" title="Sinhala Only Act">Sinhala Only Act</a>, making Sinhala the sole official language of the country, creating much controversy. </p><p>On 25 September 1959, <a href="/wiki/Assassination_of_S._W._R._D._Bandaranaike" title="Assassination of S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike">Bandaranaike was shot at his town house</a> in Colombo and died of his wounds the day after. A Buddhist monk named <a href="/wiki/Talduwe_Somarama" title="Talduwe Somarama">Ven Talduwe Somarama</a> was arrested, convicted and hanged for the murder of Bandaranaike. Minister of Education and the acting leader of the house, <a href="/wiki/Wijeyananda_Dahanayake" title="Wijeyananda Dahanayake">Wijeyananda Dahanayake</a> was appointed caretaker prime minister by the Governor General and was confirmed by Parliament. Bandaranaike's death led to political turmoil with the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna falling apart under Dahanayake who eventually formed his own party to contest the general elections in March 1960. Although the Freedom Party failed to form a government under the leadership of <a href="/wiki/C._P._de_Silva" title="C. P. de Silva">C. P. de Silva</a>, fresh elections were held four months later after the United National Party government lost the <a href="/wiki/Speech_from_the_throne" title="Speech from the throne">throne speech</a>. Bandaranaike's widow <a href="/wiki/Sirimavo_Bandaranaike" title="Sirimavo Bandaranaike">Sirima Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike</a> lead the Freedom Party to gain a majority in parliament and was appointed the first female prime minister in the world. She expanded on her husband's left-wing reforms in her two terms as prime minister from 1960 to 1964 and from 1970 to 1977. In 1994, Bandaranaike's daughter <a href="/wiki/Chandrika_Kumaratunga" title="Chandrika Kumaratunga">Chandrika Kumaratunga</a> headed a coalition led by the Freedom Party to be elected prime minister and thereafter president serving from 1994 to 2005, during which Bandaranaike's widow served as prime minister from 1994 to 2000 and Bandaranaike's son <a href="/wiki/Anura_Bandaranaike" title="Anura Bandaranaike">Anura Bandaranaike</a> served as Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka from 2000 to 2001. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=S._W._R._D._Bandaranaike&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Bandaranaike_family" title="Bandaranaike family">Bandaranaike family</a></div> <p>Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike was born in <a href="/wiki/Colombo" title="Colombo">Colombo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ceylon" class="mw-redirect" title="Ceylon">Ceylon</a>, to the wealthy <a href="/wiki/Sinhalese_people" title="Sinhalese people">Sinhalese</a> <a href="/wiki/Anglican" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglican">Anglican</a> <a href="/wiki/Christians" title="Christians">Christian</a> <a href="/wiki/Bandaranaike_family" title="Bandaranaike family">Bandaranaike family</a>, which had become one of the more elite native families under the British administration. His father was <a href="/wiki/Solomon_Dias_Bandaranaike" title="Solomon Dias Bandaranaike">Sir Solomon Dias Bandaranaike</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Maha_Mudaliyar" title="Maha Mudaliyar">Maha Mudaliyar</a> of Ceylon at the time<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>, while his mother, Daisy Ezline Obeyesekere, was a daughter of <a href="/wiki/Solomon_Christoffel_Obeyesekere" title="Solomon Christoffel Obeyesekere">Sir Solomon Christoffel Obeyesekere</a>, a member of the <a href="/wiki/Legislative_Council_of_Ceylon" title="Legislative Council of Ceylon">Legislative Council of Ceylon</a>. Sir Solomon named his only son after <a href="/wiki/West_Ridgeway" class="mw-redirect" title="West Ridgeway">Sir Joseph West Ridgeway</a>, the <a href="/wiki/List_of_Governors_of_British_Ceylon" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Governors of British Ceylon">Governor of Ceylon</a> at the time, who was his godfather.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He had two sisters, Alexandra Camelia, and Anna Florentina. <a href="/wiki/Forester_Augustus_Obeysekera" class="mw-redirect" title="Forester Augustus Obeysekera">Sir Forester Obeysekera</a> was his maternal uncle.<sup id="cite_ref-Nyrop_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nyrop-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He was tutored at his home, <a href="/wiki/Horagolla_Walauwa" title="Horagolla Walauwa">Horagolla Walauwa</a>, by Henry Young, an English tutor from <a href="/wiki/Nuwara_Eliya" title="Nuwara Eliya">Nuwaraeliya</a>, and thereafter by A. C. Radford, a <a href="/wiki/Cambridge" title="Cambridge">Cambridge</a> graduate. The young Bandaranaike had a difficult childhood with his father and tutors, who imposed their ideals on him. With the outbreak of the <a href="/wiki/Great_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Great War">Great War</a>, Radford returned to Britain and young Bandaranaike attended <a href="/wiki/S._Thomas%27_College,_Mount_Lavinia" title="S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia">St Thomas' College, Mutwal</a>, where he boarded with the warden, Rev. Arthur William Stone. He found Rev. Stone less imposing his ideals on him and encouraging of forming his own opinion. At St Thomas' College, Bandaranaike played tennis and took part in debating. He passed his <a href="/wiki/Senior_Cambridge" title="Senior Cambridge">Senior Cambridge</a> examinations with distinctions in English, Latin, Greek and French, and gained the second Order of Merit in the British Empire that year. Delayed by the Great War, he entered <a href="/wiki/Christ_Church,_Oxford" title="Christ Church, Oxford">Christ Church, Oxford</a>, where he read <a href="/wiki/Philosophy,_Politics_and_Economics" class="mw-redirect" title="Philosophy, Politics and Economics">philosophy, politics and economics</a>, and graduated with honours in 1923. At Oxford, he was President of the Majlis Society; his contemporaries at Oxford included <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Eden" title="Anthony Eden">Anthony Eden</a>. A keen debater and orator, took an active role in the <a href="/wiki/Oxford_Union" title="Oxford Union">Oxford Union</a>, where he was elected junior treasurer. He contested the presidency of the Oxford Union, and came third to <a href="/wiki/Henry_Scrymgeour-Wedderburn,_11th_Earl_of_Dundee" title="Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn, 11th Earl of Dundee">Lord Scrymgeour</a>. In 1924, he became a <a href="/wiki/Barrister" title="Barrister">barrister</a> and was called to the bar at the <a href="/wiki/Inner_Temple" title="Inner Temple">Inner Temple</a>; on his return to Ceylon, he took oaths as an <a href="/wiki/Advocate" title="Advocate">Advocate</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Ceylon" class="mw-redirect" title="Supreme Court of Ceylon">Supreme Court of Ceylon</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-auto_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_political_career">Early political career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=S._W._R._D._Bandaranaike&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early political career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After his return from Britain, Bandaranaike became active in local politics. He got elected as the Chairman of the <a href="/wiki/Nittambuwa" title="Nittambuwa">Nittambuwa</a> <a href="/wiki/Local_government_in_Sri_Lanka#Colonial_rule" title="Local government in Sri Lanka">Village Committee</a> in his family seat. He became Secretary of the <a href="/wiki/Ceylon_National_Congress" title="Ceylon National Congress">Ceylon National Congress</a> (CNC) in 1926, and in December the same year was elected from the <a href="/wiki/Maradana" title="Maradana">Maradana</a> <a href="/wiki/Ward_(electoral_subdivision)" title="Ward (electoral subdivision)">Ward</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Colombo_Municipal_Council" title="Colombo Municipal Council">Colombo Municipal Council</a>, defeating the trade unionist <a href="/wiki/A._E._Goonesinha" class="mw-redirect" title="A. E. Goonesinha">A. E. Goonesinha</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="State_Council">State Council</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=S._W._R._D._Bandaranaike&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: State Council"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ministers_of_the_Second_State_Council_of_Ceylon_with_the_Speaker_in_1936.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Ministers_of_the_Second_State_Council_of_Ceylon_with_the_Speaker_in_1936.jpg/170px-Ministers_of_the_Second_State_Council_of_Ceylon_with_the_Speaker_in_1936.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="104" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Ministers_of_the_Second_State_Council_of_Ceylon_with_the_Speaker_in_1936.jpg/255px-Ministers_of_the_Second_State_Council_of_Ceylon_with_the_Speaker_in_1936.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Ministers_of_the_Second_State_Council_of_Ceylon_with_the_Speaker_in_1936.jpg/340px-Ministers_of_the_Second_State_Council_of_Ceylon_with_the_Speaker_in_1936.jpg 2x" data-file-width="569" data-file-height="347" /></a><figcaption>Second Board of Ministers of Ceylon. Bandaranaike is in the left corner standing.</figcaption></figure> <p>Following the implementation of the <a href="/wiki/Donoughmore_Constitution" title="Donoughmore Constitution">Donoughmore Constitution</a>, the <a href="/wiki/State_Council_of_Ceylon" title="State Council of Ceylon">State Council of Ceylon</a> was established as the first legislature in the island with its members elected through <a href="/wiki/Universal_suffrage" title="Universal suffrage">universal suffrage</a>. Bandaranaike contended and was elected unopposed from Veyangoda at the <a href="/wiki/1931_Ceylonese_State_Council_election" title="1931 Ceylonese State Council election">1931 election</a> to the first State Council and was elected to the executive committee for local administration, chaired by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Batuwantudawe" title="Charles Batuwantudawe">Charles Batuwantudawe</a>. He stated in the council that the committee system introduced in the new constitution was satisfactory at the time. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Minister_of_Local_Administration">Minister of Local Administration</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=S._W._R._D._Bandaranaike&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Minister of Local Administration"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1936, he was re-elected unopposed from Veyangoda in the <a href="/wiki/1936_Ceylonese_State_Council_election" title="1936 Ceylonese State Council election">1936 election</a> to the second State Council. In its first meeting, he was elected as Minister of Local Administration. As Minister, he was chairmen of the executive committee on local administration, of which he had been a member in the previous term and was a member of the <a href="/wiki/Second_Board_of_Ministers_of_Ceylon" title="Second Board of Ministers of Ceylon">Board of Ministers</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sinhala_Maha_Sabha">Sinhala Maha Sabha</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=S._W._R._D._Bandaranaike&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Sinhala Maha Sabha"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In order to promote <a href="/wiki/Sinhalese_people" title="Sinhalese people">Sinhalese</a> culture and community interests, Bandaranaike founded the <a href="/wiki/Sinhala_Maha_Sabha" title="Sinhala Maha Sabha">Sinhala Maha Sabha</a> in 1936. He introduced the <i>Free Lanka Bill</i> in the State Council in 1945<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1947, when Leader of the House, <a href="/wiki/D._S._Senanayake" title="D. S. Senanayake">D. S. Senanayake</a> presented the <a href="/wiki/Soulbury_Constitution" class="mw-redirect" title="Soulbury Constitution">Soulbury Constitution</a> to the State Council, Bandaranaike seconded the motion stating that he does so as the Sinhala Maha Sabha was the largest party in the State Council. </p><p>With Ceylon heading for self-rule under <a href="/wiki/Dominion" title="Dominion">dominion</a> status, D.S. Senanayake invited Bandaranaike to combine his Sinhala Maha Sabha with other smaller parties into the <a href="/wiki/United_National_Party" title="United National Party">United National Party</a> (UNP) which Senanayake was forming to contest for the <a href="/wiki/1947_Ceylonese_parliamentary_election" title="1947 Ceylonese parliamentary election">1947 election</a> under the new <a href="/wiki/Soulbury_Constitution" class="mw-redirect" title="Soulbury Constitution">Soulbury Constitution</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bandaranaike accepted the invitation, formally dissolving the Sinhala Maha Sabha and merging with the UNP. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="First_Cabinet_Minister_of_Health_and_Local_Government">First Cabinet Minister of Health and Local Government</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=S._W._R._D._Bandaranaike&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: First Cabinet Minister of Health and Local Government"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:First_Cabinet_of_Ceylon.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/First_Cabinet_of_Ceylon.jpg/220px-First_Cabinet_of_Ceylon.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="138" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/First_Cabinet_of_Ceylon.jpg/330px-First_Cabinet_of_Ceylon.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/First_Cabinet_of_Ceylon.jpg 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="251" /></a><figcaption>The first Cabinet of Ministers of Ceylon. Bandaranaike is in the first row-second from the left</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hon.S.W.R.D.Bandaranayaka_in_Kandy_Ceylon_as_the_United_National_Party_Minister_of_Health_and_Local_Government_(Before_1951_Sept).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Hon.S.W.R.D.Bandaranayaka_in_Kandy_Ceylon_as_the_United_National_Party_Minister_of_Health_and_Local_Government_%28Before_1951_Sept%29.jpg/220px-Hon.S.W.R.D.Bandaranayaka_in_Kandy_Ceylon_as_the_United_National_Party_Minister_of_Health_and_Local_Government_%28Before_1951_Sept%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="143" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Hon.S.W.R.D.Bandaranayaka_in_Kandy_Ceylon_as_the_United_National_Party_Minister_of_Health_and_Local_Government_%28Before_1951_Sept%29.jpg/330px-Hon.S.W.R.D.Bandaranayaka_in_Kandy_Ceylon_as_the_United_National_Party_Minister_of_Health_and_Local_Government_%28Before_1951_Sept%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Hon.S.W.R.D.Bandaranayaka_in_Kandy_Ceylon_as_the_United_National_Party_Minister_of_Health_and_Local_Government_%28Before_1951_Sept%29.jpg/440px-Hon.S.W.R.D.Bandaranayaka_in_Kandy_Ceylon_as_the_United_National_Party_Minister_of_Health_and_Local_Government_%28Before_1951_Sept%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1811" data-file-height="1175" /></a><figcaption>Bandaranaike in Kandy as Minister of Health and Local Government</figcaption></figure> <p>He contested for the newly formed <a href="/wiki/House_of_Representatives_of_Ceylon" class="mw-redirect" title="House of Representatives of Ceylon">House of Representatives</a> in the 1947 election from the UNP from <a href="/wiki/Attanagalla" title="Attanagalla">Attanagalla</a>, winning with a good majority. In September 1947, D.S. Senanayake appointed him to his cabinet as the first <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Health_(Sri_Lanka)" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister of Health (Sri Lanka)">Minister of Health and Local Government</a> of Ceylon and he was elected as the <a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_House_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Leader of the House (Sri Lanka)">Leader of the House</a>. Effectively this made Bandaranaike the most senior member of the cabinet, after the Prime Minister. In fact, Senanayake had Sir Oliver Goonetilleke discuss with Bandaranaike as leader of the Sinhala Maha Sabha, the draft agreements for independence; which Bandaranaike received with mixed feelings. However, he did not object and the agreements signed with the Britain government making way for Ceylon to gain self-rule. As leader of the house, he delivered the address of thanks at the ceremonial opening of parliament on 4 February 1948, which marked Ceylon's independence from Britain. </p><p>During the next few years, he supported legislation proposed by the government as leader of the house. This included the <a href="/wiki/Ceylon_Citizenship_Act" title="Ceylon Citizenship Act">Ceylon Citizenship Act No. 18 of 1948</a> and the Indian and Pakistani Residents (Citizenship) Act No.3 of 1949 which deprived citizenship to <a href="/wiki/Tamil_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Tamil people">Indian Tamils</a>. He initiated several projects for the improvement of health as minister of health, including the expansion of hospitals and uplifting <a href="/wiki/Ayurveda" title="Ayurveda">ayurveda</a> medicine. He attended the <a href="/wiki/World_Health_Assembly" title="World Health Assembly">Third World Health Assembly</a> in <a href="/wiki/Geneva" title="Geneva">Geneva</a> in May 1950 as Chief delegate of Ceylon. However, he found himself at odds with Senanayake administration on policy. By 1951, it also appeared that Senanayake did not intend to make an early retirement that would have allowed Bandaranaike to succeed him as prime minister. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Cross_over_and_formation_of_the_Sri_Lanka_Freedom_Party">Cross over and formation of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=S._W._R._D._Bandaranaike&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Cross over and formation of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In July 1951, Bandaranaike resigned from his government posts and crossed the floor to the opposition with several of his close associates from the Sinhala Maha Sabha. Thereafter he dissolved the Sinhala Maha Sabha and formed a new party, the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Freedom_Party" title="Sri Lanka Freedom Party">Sri Lanka Freedom Party</a> (SLFP) having its inaugural meeting at <a href="/wiki/Town_Hall,_Colombo" title="Town Hall, Colombo">Town Hall</a> on 2 September 1951.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-SWRD-History_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SWRD-History-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-SWRD-Encarta-MSN_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SWRD-Encarta-MSN-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A few months later, on 21 March 1952 D.S. Senanayake fell off his horse, while on his morning ride after suffering a stroke and died the following day. Although <a href="/wiki/Sir" title="Sir">Sir</a> <a href="/wiki/John_Kotelawala" title="John Kotelawala">John Kotelawala</a> was expected to succeed him, his son <a href="/wiki/Dudley_Senanayake" title="Dudley Senanayake">Dudley Senanayake</a>, Minister of Agriculture was appointed prime minister on 26 March 1952 by the <a href="/wiki/Governor-General_of_Ceylon" title="Governor-General of Ceylon">Governor-General</a> <a href="/wiki/Herwald_Ramsbotham,_1st_Viscount_Soulbury" title="Herwald Ramsbotham, 1st Viscount Soulbury">Lord Soulbury</a>. Dudley Senanayake called a <a href="/wiki/1952_Ceylonese_parliamentary_election" title="1952 Ceylonese parliamentary election">general election in 1952</a>, which the UNP won gaining 54 seats in parliament. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Leader_of_the_Opposition">Leader of the Opposition</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=S._W._R._D._Bandaranaike&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Leader of the Opposition"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bandaranaike contested the general election from the SLFP for the <a href="/wiki/Attanagalla_Electoral_District" title="Attanagalla Electoral District">Attanagalla seat</a> and was re-elected. With the SLFP gaining nine seats and the <a href="/wiki/Lanka_Sama_Samaja_Party" title="Lanka Sama Samaja Party">LSSP</a> gaining nine. Bandaranaike was elected <a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_Opposition_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Leader of the Opposition (Sri Lanka)">Leader of the Opposition</a>. The leftist agitated <a href="/wiki/Hartal_1953" class="mw-redirect" title="Hartal 1953">Hartal 1953</a> affected Senanayake, who shortly stepped down. Kotelawala succeeded him as prime minister. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pancha_Maha_Balavegaya">Pancha Maha Balavegaya</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=S._W._R._D._Bandaranaike&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Pancha Maha Balavegaya"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Between 1952 and 1956, Bandaranaike spent much of its time consolidating the new party. Although it drew many supporters from the old Sinhala Maha Sabha, it was still relatively new facing a lack of funds and the lack of support from mess media as it could not afford a party newspaper. It drew much of its support from the rural areas that were marginalized or neglected by the incumbent UNP government which was pro-establishment. On the issue of language, the party originally espoused the use of both <a href="/wiki/Sinhala_language" title="Sinhala language">Sinhala</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tamil_language" title="Tamil language">Tamil</a> as national languages, but in the mid-1950s it adopted a "<i>Swabasha</i>" (native language) policy. The party asserted itself as a champion of the <a href="/wiki/Buddhist" class="mw-redirect" title="Buddhist">Buddhist</a> religion; the SLFP has thus customarily relied upon the socially and politically influential Buddhist clergy (the <i>Sangha</i>) to carry its message to rural Sinhalese. Since the 1950s, SLFP platforms have reflected the earlier organization's emphasis on appealing to the sentiments of the Sinhalese masses in rural areas. To this basis has been added the anti-establishment appeal of non-revolutionary <a href="/wiki/Socialism" title="Socialism">socialism</a>. Bandaranaike continued his policies stated in 1952, on language, Buddhism, and Ayurvedic medicine. As such he stated that the basis of the party would be the 'Pancha Maha Balavegaya' (Five Great Forces) which consisted of the native doctors, clergy, teachers, farmers and workers.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mahajana_Eksath_Peramuna_and_the_1956_elections">Mahajana Eksath Peramuna and the 1956 elections</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=S._W._R._D._Bandaranaike&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Mahajana Eksath Peramuna and the 1956 elections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1956, Kotelawala called for early elections. Bandaranaike responded by assembling a coalition with a group of small <a href="/wiki/Marxist" class="mw-redirect" title="Marxist">Marxist</a> parties to form the <a href="/wiki/Mahajana_Eksath_Peramuna_(1956)" title="Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (1956)">Mahajana Eksath Peramuna</a> (MEP) to contest the <a href="/wiki/1956_Ceylonese_parliamentary_election" title="1956 Ceylonese parliamentary election">1956 general elections</a>. The MEP was a four-party coalition with a no-contest pact with the <a href="/wiki/Lanka_Sama_Samaja_Party" title="Lanka Sama Samaja Party">Lanka Sama Samaja Party</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Sri_Lanka" title="Communist Party of Sri Lanka">Communist Party of Sri Lanka</a>. Although he inherited his father's vast estate at the death of Sir Solomon in 1946, he was riddled with <a href="/wiki/Death_duties" class="mw-redirect" title="Death duties">death duties</a>. Short on funds for the election, Bandaranaike mortgaged his <a href="/wiki/Town_house" class="mw-redirect" title="Town house">town house</a> at Rosmead Place to the <a href="/wiki/Bank_of_Ceylon" title="Bank of Ceylon">Bank of Ceylon</a> for Rs 200,000; which he used for his campaign. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Prime_minister">Prime minister</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=S._W._R._D._Bandaranaike&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Prime minister"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/1956_Ceylonese_parliamentary_election" title="1956 Ceylonese parliamentary election">1956 elections</a> was a landslide victory for the MEP as it gained a two-thirds majority in parliament and Bandaranaike was invited by the Governor General to form a government as the fourth prime minister of Ceylon in April 1956. He <a href="/wiki/S._W._R._D._Bandaranaike_cabinet" title="S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike cabinet">formed his cabinet</a> with a collection of senior members of the parties that made up the MEP and several independents.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Language_policy_and_communal_tension">Language policy and communal tension</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=S._W._R._D._Bandaranaike&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Language policy and communal tension"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In keeping with one of his primary election polices, Bandaranaike had the <i><a href="/wiki/Sinhala_Only_Act" title="Sinhala Only Act">Official Language Act (No. 33 of 1956)</a></i> passed. known as the <i>Sinhala Only Act</i>, it made Sinhala language the sole official language of the country, replacing <a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a> which he had promised to do within 24 hours of coming to power. The effects of this legislation was profound and lasted for many years. It created immediate distrust among the minority <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Tamils" title="Sri Lankan Tamils">Sri Lankan Tamils</a> which resulted in protests as they found themselves disenfranchised, these protests lead to several riots in <a href="/wiki/Gal_Oya_riots" class="mw-redirect" title="Gal Oya riots">1956</a> and <a href="/wiki/1958_anti-Tamil_pogrom" title="1958 anti-Tamil pogrom">1958</a>. The <i><a href="/wiki/Sinhala_Only_Act#Partial_reversal_in_1958" title="Sinhala Only Act">Tamil Language (Special Provisions) Act</a></i> was passed in September 1958 to remedy the effects of the Official Language Act, it fell short of making the Tamil language an official language in par with the Sinhala language, which lead to the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_civil_war" title="Sri Lankan civil war">Sri Lankan Civil War</a> from 1983 to 2009. He is also remembered by the minority <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Tamils" title="Sri Lankan Tamils">Sri Lankan Tamils</a> for his failure to use the state's resources to control the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_riots_of_1958" class="mw-redirect" title="Sri Lankan riots of 1958">1958 riots</a>, leading to the deaths of many Tamil citizens at the hands of mobs. The government declared a <a href="/wiki/State_of_emergency" title="State of emergency">state of emergency</a> on 27 May after six days of riots, by the Governor General who effectively took control. He introduced legislation to prohibit <a href="/wiki/Caste" title="Caste">caste</a> based discrimination.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Foreign_policy">Foreign policy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=S._W._R._D._Bandaranaike&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Foreign policy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Foreign_policy_of_S.W.R.D._Bandaranaike" class="mw-redirect" title="Foreign policy of S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike">Foreign policy of S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike</a></div> <p>Bandaranaike made a radical shift of Ceylon's foreign policy to date, by opening diplomatic channels with the <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="People's Republic of China">People's Republic of China</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Bloc" title="Eastern Bloc">Eastern Bloc</a> and moved towards the <a href="/wiki/Non-Aligned_Movement" title="Non-Aligned Movement">Non-Aligned Movement</a>. He established a close personal friendship with <a href="/wiki/Jawaharlal_Nehru" title="Jawaharlal Nehru">Jawaharlal Nehru</a> and <a href="/wiki/Zhou_Enlai" title="Zhou Enlai">Zhou Enlai</a>. He abrogated the 1947 United Kingdom-Ceylon Defence Agreement, requested for the removal of the British air bases at <a href="/wiki/Bandaranaike_International_Airport" title="Bandaranaike International Airport">RAF Negombo</a>, <a href="/wiki/China_Bay_Airport" title="China Bay Airport">RAF China Bay</a> and the naval base at <a href="/wiki/Trincomalee" title="Trincomalee">Trincomalee</a>. This resulted in the loss of jobs for locals employed in those bases and Ceylon becoming dependent on India for its security. In 1957, he signed the <a href="/wiki/Bandaranaike%E2%80%93Chelvanayakam_Pact" title="Bandaranaike–Chelvanayakam Pact">Bandaranaike–Chelvanayakam Pact</a>, but was forced to withdraw in 1958 due to pressure from right wing elements of his party.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Economic_policy">Economic policy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=S._W._R._D._Bandaranaike&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Economic policy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bandaranaike introduced socialist reforms to the therethrough <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_model" title="Anglo-Saxon model">Anglo-Saxon model</a> in the island with <a href="/wiki/Nationalization" title="Nationalization">nationalization</a>, labor reforms and wage increase. The <i>Paddy Lands Bill</i> was introduced by is government to protect peasant farmers, the <a href="/wiki/Employees%27_Provident_Fund_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Employees' Provident Fund (Sri Lanka)">Employees' Provident Fund</a> was established and <a href="/wiki/May_Day" title="May Day">May Day</a> declared a public holiday. In 1958, he <a href="/wiki/Nationalized" class="mw-redirect" title="Nationalized">nationalized</a> <a href="/wiki/Bus" title="Bus">bus</a> companies and formed the <a href="/wiki/Ceylon_Transport_Board" class="mw-redirect" title="Ceylon Transport Board">Ceylon Transport Board</a>, nationalized the Colombo Port and formed the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ceylon_Shipping_Corporation&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ceylon Shipping Corporation (page does not exist)">Ceylon Shipping Corporation</a>. These didn't bring short benefits and he was faced with economic problems. His critics claimed that some or all of these polices were politically motivated and would have long term negative economic effects.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="National_policies">National policies</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=S._W._R._D._Bandaranaike&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: National policies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bandaranaike initiated the process to abolish the colonial era <a href="/wiki/Ceylon_Civil_Service" title="Ceylon Civil Service">Ceylon Civil Service</a> and replace it with a broader <a href="/wiki/Ceylon_Administrative_Service" class="mw-redirect" title="Ceylon Administrative Service">Ceylon Administrative Service</a> which replaced the merit based public administration with an appointment based system that was opened to political influence. Due to the change of the official language, many experienced civil servants opted for early retirement. He suspended all <a href="/wiki/Ceylonese_recipients_of_British_titles" title="Ceylonese recipients of British titles">British and native honors</a> and enacted the Suspension of the Capital Punishment Act No 20 of 1958, which suspended the death penalty from May 1958. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Strikes_and_cabinet_crisis">Strikes and cabinet crisis</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=S._W._R._D._Bandaranaike&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Strikes and cabinet crisis"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In early 1959, a cabinet crisis resulted in the resignation of the leftist <a href="/wiki/Philip_Gunawardena" title="Philip Gunawardena">Philip Gunawardena</a> and <a href="/wiki/William_de_Silva" title="William de Silva">William de Silva</a>. However the MEP remained intact. In 1959 trade unions at <a href="/wiki/Colombo_Harbour" class="mw-redirect" title="Colombo Harbour">Colombo Harbour</a> went on strike crippling imports and exports. Bandaranaike requested that the police intervene against trade union action, the order was declined by <a href="/wiki/Inspector_General_of_Police_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Inspector General of Police (Sri Lanka)">IGP</a> <a href="/wiki/Osmund_de_Silva" title="Osmund de Silva">Osmund de Silva</a> on the grounds that he believed it to be unlawful. In April 1959, de Silva was compulsorily retired from the police force and <a href="/wiki/M._Walter_F._Abeykoon" title="M. Walter F. Abeykoon">M. Walter F. Abeykoon</a>, a civil servant and Bandaranaike's bridge partner at the <a href="/wiki/Orient_Club" title="Orient Club">Orient Club</a>, was appointed in his place.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-PD_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PD-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Assassination">Assassination</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=S._W._R._D._Bandaranaike&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Assassination"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Assassination_of_S._W._R._D._Bandaranaike" title="Assassination of S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike">Assassination of S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike</a></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:S._W._R._D._Bandaranaike_with_Sirimavo_Bandaranaike_%26_E._L._Senanayake.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/S._W._R._D._Bandaranaike_with_Sirimavo_Bandaranaike_%26_E._L._Senanayake.jpg/250px-S._W._R._D._Bandaranaike_with_Sirimavo_Bandaranaike_%26_E._L._Senanayake.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="198" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/S._W._R._D._Bandaranaike_with_Sirimavo_Bandaranaike_%26_E._L._Senanayake.jpg/375px-S._W._R._D._Bandaranaike_with_Sirimavo_Bandaranaike_%26_E._L._Senanayake.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/S._W._R._D._Bandaranaike_with_Sirimavo_Bandaranaike_%26_E._L._Senanayake.jpg/500px-S._W._R._D._Bandaranaike_with_Sirimavo_Bandaranaike_%26_E._L._Senanayake.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5583" data-file-height="4424" /></a><figcaption>Bandaranaike with Srimavo and <a href="/wiki/E._L._Senanayake" title="E. L. Senanayake">E. L. Senanayake</a> on 23 September 1959 in Kandy, two days before his assassination.</figcaption></figure> <p>Bandaranaike died four years into his term, aged 60 on 26 September 1959, at the Merchant's Ward of the <a href="/wiki/Colombo_General_Hospital" class="mw-redirect" title="Colombo General Hospital">Colombo General Hospital</a> due to wounds sustained after being shot by <a href="/wiki/Talduwe_Somarama" title="Talduwe Somarama">Talduwe Somarama</a>, a Buddhist monk.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 25 September, Somarama had visited Bandaranaike at his private residence, <a href="/wiki/Tintagel_Colombo" title="Tintagel Colombo">Tintagel</a>, in Rosmead Place, Colombo. Since Somarama appeared to be a member of the Buddhist clergy, he was not searched for weapons and given free access to the prime minister as he began his routine meetings with the public. The monk then fired a revolver at Bandaranaike as the latter stood to greet him; he was rushed to hospital but died the following day despite six hours of surgery by Ceylon's most skilled surgeons.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A Supreme Court trial found Somarama, <a href="/wiki/Mapitigama_Buddharakkitha_Thero" class="mw-redirect" title="Mapitigama Buddharakkitha Thero">Mapitigama Buddharakkitha</a>, H.P. Jayewardena guilty and pronounced on all three of them the death sentence (death by hanging). Although Bandaranaike's administration had suspended capital punishment, Talduwe Somarama was hanged on 6 July 1962. It was claimed by the court that the reason for the murder of the Bandaranaike, was due to Bandaranaike's refusal to entertain Buddharakitha Thero's requests following his support for Buddharakitha in the election. </p><p>After Bandaranaike's death, <a href="/wiki/Wijeyananda_Dahanayake" title="Wijeyananda Dahanayake">Wijeyananda Dahanayake</a>, minister of education and the acting <a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_House_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Leader of the House (Sri Lanka)">leader of the house</a>, was appointed caretaker prime minister by the Governor General and was confirmed by Parliament. <a href="/wiki/C._P._de_Silva" title="C. P. de Silva">C. P. de Silva</a>, the minister of lands, land development and agriculture, and the leader of the house had taken ill at a cabinet meeting on 25 August 1959 and was flown to the United Kingdom for treatment, making Dahanayake the acting leader of the house and his name had been put up by Bandaranaike as acting prime minister, during his planned visit to the UN.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>However, he fell out of favor with the members of the government, resulting in the removal of all ministers of Bandaranaike's cabinet in less than a year. Eventually, the leadership of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party fell to Bandaranaike's widow <a href="/wiki/Sirimavo_Bandaranaike" title="Sirimavo Bandaranaike">Sirima Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike</a> who held the SLFP to an election victory in July 1960 becoming the world's first female prime minister and was soon appointed a senator. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Family_life">Family life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=S._W._R._D._Bandaranaike&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Family life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Bandaranaike_family" title="Bandaranaike family">Bandaranaike family</a></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bandaranaike_Samadhi_at_Horagolla,_Sri_Lanka.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Bandaranaike_Samadhi_at_Horagolla%2C_Sri_Lanka.jpg/200px-Bandaranaike_Samadhi_at_Horagolla%2C_Sri_Lanka.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Bandaranaike_Samadhi_at_Horagolla%2C_Sri_Lanka.jpg/300px-Bandaranaike_Samadhi_at_Horagolla%2C_Sri_Lanka.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Bandaranaike_Samadhi_at_Horagolla%2C_Sri_Lanka.jpg/400px-Bandaranaike_Samadhi_at_Horagolla%2C_Sri_Lanka.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3264" data-file-height="2448" /></a><figcaption>Bandaranaike Samadhi – S.W.R.D.'s tomb at Horagolla, Sri Lanka</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1940, he married <a href="/wiki/Sirimavo_Bandaranaike" title="Sirimavo Bandaranaike">Sirima Ratwatte</a>, daughter of <a href="/wiki/Barnes_Ratwatte" title="Barnes Ratwatte">Barnes Ratwatte</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rate_Mahatmaya" title="Rate Mahatmaya">Rate Mahatmaya</a> of <a href="/wiki/Balangoda" title="Balangoda">Balangoda</a>. Ratwattes were an old <a href="/wiki/Radala" title="Radala">Radala</a> family hailing from the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Kandy" title="Kingdom of Kandy">Kingdom of Kandy</a> and the Bandaranaike's were an old and wealthy family from the low-country which had been in service of the colonial rulers for centuries. The wedding was dubbed "the wedding of the century" and linked Bandaranaike with the Kandyan elite through marriage.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The newly married couple moved into <i>Wentworth</i> in Guilford Crescent, Colombo which was taken on rent from <a href="/wiki/Lionel_Wendt" title="Lionel Wendt">Lionel Wendt</a>. Their first two children, <a href="/wiki/Sunethra_Bandaranaike" title="Sunethra Bandaranaike">Sunethra</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chandrika_Kumaratunga" title="Chandrika Kumaratunga">Chandrika</a> were born and the family stayed at Wentworth till 1946, when Sir Solomon bought a mansion at Rosmead Place, Colombo and the family settled into it. Here their only son <a href="/wiki/Anura_Bandaranaike" title="Anura Bandaranaike">Anura</a> was born. Following the death of his father Sir Solomon, Bandaranaike inherited the family seat of <a href="/wiki/Horagolla_Walauwa" title="Horagolla Walauwa">Horagolla Walauwa</a> in <a href="/wiki/Attanagalla_Electoral_District" title="Attanagalla Electoral District">Atthanagalla</a>. <a href="/wiki/Attanagalla_Electoral_District" title="Attanagalla Electoral District">Atthanagalla</a> became his <a href="/wiki/Constituency" class="mw-redirect" title="Constituency">home constituency</a> for the future elections and remained the home constituency of his wife, daughter and son. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Sirimavo_Bandaranaike" title="Sirimavo Bandaranaike">Sirima Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike</a>, as she was known after her marriage, became the first female prime minister in the world following Bandaranaike's assassination. His daughter <a href="/wiki/Chandrika_Kumaratunga" title="Chandrika Kumaratunga">Chandrika Kumaratunga</a> subsequently became <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Sri_Lanka" title="Prime Minister of Sri Lanka">Prime Minister</a> (1994) and then first female <a href="/wiki/Executive_president" title="Executive president">Executive president</a> in the country; his only son <a href="/wiki/Anura_Bandaranaike" title="Anura Bandaranaike">Anura Bandaranaike</a> went on to become <a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_Parliament_of_Sri_Lanka" title="Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka">Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka</a> (2000–01) and a Minister (2004–08); and his eldest <a href="/wiki/Sunethra_Bandaranaike" title="Sunethra Bandaranaike">Sunethra Bandaranaike</a>, who followed her father's footsteps attending Oxford, became a prominent socialite. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=S._W._R._D._Bandaranaike&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Both a respected and controversial figure, he initiated the racial discords in the island nation with his pro-Sinhalese nationalist policies.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His wife continued many of his socialist policies in later years of her administration. </p><p>On 17 July 1976, a bronze statue of S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike was unveiled on <a href="/wiki/Galle_Face_Green" title="Galle Face Green">Galle Face Green</a>, it was sculpted by <a href="/wiki/Lev_Kerbel" title="Lev Kerbel">Lev Kerbel</a> and gifted from the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Bandaranaike_Memorial_International_Conference_Hall" title="Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall">Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall</a> was gifted from the <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="People's Republic of China">People's Republic of China</a> in his memory in 1970 and houses the <i>S W R D Bandaranaike Museum</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Goh_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Goh-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Bandaranaike_International_Airport" title="Bandaranaike International Airport">Bandaranaike International Airport</a>, the first international airport in Ceylon was named in his honor when it was opened in 1970. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Honours">Honours</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=S._W._R._D._Bandaranaike&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Honours"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Dominion_of_Ceylon" title="Dominion of Ceylon"><img alt="Dominion of Ceylon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Flag_of_Ceylon_%281951%E2%80%931972%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Ceylon_%281951%E2%80%931972%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Flag_of_Ceylon_%281951%E2%80%931972%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Ceylon_%281951%E2%80%931972%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Flag_of_Ceylon_%281951%E2%80%931972%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Ceylon_%281951%E2%80%931972%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Legum_Doctor" title="Legum Doctor">LLD</a> (honorary) – <a href="/wiki/University_of_Ceylon" title="University of Ceylon">University of Ceylon</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Electoral_history">Electoral history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=S._W._R._D._Bandaranaike&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Electoral history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:left;"> <caption>Electoral history of S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Election </th> <th scope="col">Constituency </th> <th scope="col" colspan="2">Party </th> <th scope="col">Votes </th> <th scope="col">Result </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1931_Ceylonese_State_Council_election" title="1931 Ceylonese State Council election">1931 state council</a></td> <td>Veyangoda</td> <td rowspan="2" style="background:Gray;"></td> <td>Independent</td> <td>Unopposed</td> <td><b>Elected</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1936_Ceylonese_State_Council_election" title="1936 Ceylonese State Council election">1936 state council</a></td> <td>Veyangoda</td> <td>Independent</td> <td>Unopposed</td> <td><b>Elected</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1947_Ceylonese_parliamentary_election" title="1947 Ceylonese parliamentary election">1947 parliamentary</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Attanagalla_Electoral_District" title="Attanagalla Electoral District">Attanagalla</a></td> <td rowspan="1" style="background:#07AF14;"></td> <td><a href="/wiki/United_National_Party" title="United National Party">United National Party</a></td> <td align="right"><span data-sort-value="7004314630000000000♠">31,463</span></td> <td><b>Elected</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1952_Ceylonese_parliamentary_election" title="1952 Ceylonese parliamentary election">1952 parliamentary</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Attanagalla_Electoral_District" title="Attanagalla Electoral District">Attanagalla</a></td> <td rowspan="2" style="background:#0D3B90;"></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Freedom_Party" title="Sri Lanka Freedom Party">Sri Lanka Freedom Party</a></td> <td align="right"><span data-sort-value="7004384780000000000♠">38,478</span></td> <td><b>Elected</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1956_Ceylonese_parliamentary_election" title="1956 Ceylonese parliamentary election">1956 parliamentary</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Attanagalla_Electoral_District" title="Attanagalla Electoral District">Attanagalla</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Freedom_Party" title="Sri Lanka Freedom Party">Sri Lanka Freedom Party</a></td> <td align="right"><span data-sort-value="7004450160000000000♠">45,016</span></td> <td><b>Elected</b> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=S._W._R._D._Bandaranaike&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_political_families_in_Sri_Lanka" title="List of political families in Sri Lanka">List of political families in Sri Lanka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_Sri_Lankan_Parliament_who_died_in_office" title="List of members of the Sri Lankan Parliament who died in office">List of members of the Sri Lankan Parliament who died in office</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=S._W._R._D._Bandaranaike&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output 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W. R. D. Bandaranaike</a>/<a href="/wiki/Wijeyananda_Dahanayake" title="Wijeyananda Dahanayake">Wijeyananda Dahanayake</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_Opposition_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Leader of the Opposition (Sri Lanka)">Leader of the Opposition</a>:</b> <a href="/wiki/N._M._Perera" title="N. M. Perera">N. M. Perera</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Central_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="Central Province, Sri Lanka">Central Province</a> (15)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/M._D._Banda" title="M. D. Banda">M. D. Banda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Dissanayake" title="Andrew Dissanayake">M. A. D. Dissanayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kalyanaratne_Hemachandra" title="Kalyanaratne Hemachandra">K. Hemachandra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/T._B._Ilangaratne" title="T. B. Ilangaratne">T. B. Ilangaratne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Edward_Jayatilaka" title="Robert Edward Jayatilaka">Robert Edward Jayatilaka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._Jinadasa" title="S. Jinadasa">S. Jinadasa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/L._S._Jinasena" title="L. S. Jinasena">L. S. Jinasena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nimal_Karunatilake" title="Nimal Karunatilake">Nimal Karunatilake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._A._S._Marikkar" title="C. A. S. Marikkar">C. A. S. Marikkar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._B._W._Mediwake" title="M. B. W. Mediwake">M. B. W. Mediwake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R._S._Pelpola" title="R. S. Pelpola">R. S. Pelpola</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Piyasena_Tennakoon" title="Piyasena Tennakoon">Piyasena Tennakoon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/T._B._Tennekoon" title="T. B. Tennekoon">T. B. Tennekoon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/P._B._A._Weerakoon" title="P. B. A. Weerakoon">Aloysius Weerakoon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._D._Weerasekera" title="J. D. Weerasekera">J. D. Weerasekera</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="Eastern Province, Sri Lanka">Eastern Province</a> (7)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/S._U._Ethirmanasingham" title="S. U. Ethirmanasingham">S. U. Ethirmanasingham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._S._Kariapper" title="M. S. Kariapper">M. S. Kariapper</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ahmed_Hussain_Macan_Markar" title="Ahmed Hussain Macan Markar">Ahmed Hussain Macan Markar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._E._H._Mohamed_Ali" title="M. E. H. Mohamed Ali">M. E. H. Mohamed Ali</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._M._Mustapha" title="M. M. Mustapha">M. M. Mustapha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._Rajadurai" title="C. Rajadurai">C. Rajadurai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/N._R._Rajavarothiam" title="N. R. Rajavarothiam">N. R. Rajavarothiam</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Northern_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="Northern Province, Sri Lanka">Northern Province</a> (9)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/V._A._Alegacone" title="V. A. Alegacone">V. A. Alegacone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._Amirthalingam" title="A. Amirthalingam">A. Amirthalingam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._J._V._Chelvanayakam" title="S. J. V. Chelvanayakam">S. J. V. Chelvanayakam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/P._Kandiah" title="P. Kandiah">P. Kandiah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V._A._Kandiah" title="V. A. Kandiah">V. A. Kandiah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V._N._Navaratnam" title="V. N. Navaratnam">V. N. Navaratnam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/G._G._Ponnambalam" title="G. G. Ponnambalam">G. G. Ponnambalam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._Suntharalingam" title="C. Suntharalingam">C. Suntharalingam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._Vanniasingam" title="C. Vanniasingam">C. Vanniasingam</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/North_Central_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="North Central Province, Sri Lanka">North Central Province</a> (5)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/C._P._de_Silva" title="C. P. de Silva">C. P. de Silva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._S._Dissanayake" title="M. S. Dissanayake">M. S. Dissanayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sirimevan_Godage" title="Sirimevan Godage">Sirimevan Godage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/E._L._B._Hurulle" title="E. L. B. Hurulle">E. L. B. Hurulle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maithripala_Senanayake" title="Maithripala Senanayake">Maithripala Senanayake</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/North_Western_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="North Western Province, Sri Lanka">North Western Province</a> (10)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/M._A._Adikari" title="M. A. Adikari">M. A. Adikari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Fernando" title="Hugh Fernando">Hugh Fernando</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/I._M._R._A._Iriyagolle" title="I. M. R. A. Iriyagolle">I. M. R. A. Iriyagolle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hameed_Hussain_Sheikh_Ismail" title="Hameed Hussain Sheikh Ismail">Hameed Hussain Sheikh Ismail</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Kotelawala" title="John Kotelawala">John Kotelawala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._B._Monnekulame" title="D. B. Monnekulame">D. B. 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Beligammana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kusumasiri_Gunawardena" title="Kusumasiri Gunawardena">Kusumasiri Gunawardena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maithripala_Herath" title="Maithripala Herath">Maithripala Herath</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._F._Hettiarachchi" title="D. F. Hettiarachchi">D. F. Hettiarachchi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._P._Jothipala" title="M. P. Jothipala">M. P. Jothipala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/P._B._G._Kalugalla" title="P. B. G. Kalugalla">P. B. G. Kalugalla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V._T._G._Karunaratne" title="V. T. G. Karunaratne">V. T. G. Karunaratne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jayaweera_Kuruppu" title="Jayaweera Kuruppu">Jayaweera Kuruppu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/N._M._Perera" title="N. M. Perera">N. M. Perera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Samarakkody" title="Edmund Samarakkody">Edmund Samarakkody</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Southern_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="Southern Province, Sri Lanka">Southern Province</a> (12)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Abeywickrema" title="Henry Abeywickrema">Henry Abeywickrema</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wijeyananda_Dahanayake" title="Wijeyananda Dahanayake">Wijeyananda Dahanayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_de_Silva" title="William de Silva">William de Silva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._P._de_Zoysa" title="M. P. de Zoysa">M. P. de Zoysa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._A._Dharmapala" title="C. A. Dharmapala">C. A. Dharmapala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._S._Goonesekera" title="D. S. Goonesekera">D. S. Goonesekera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Panini_Ilangakoon" title="Panini Ilangakoon">Panini Ilangakoon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._A._Rajapaksa" title="D. A. Rajapaksa">D. A. Rajapaksa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lakshman_Rajapaksa" title="Lakshman Rajapaksa">Lakshman Rajapaksa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._W._D._Ratnayake" title="S. W. D. Ratnayake">S. W. D. Ratnayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahanama_Samaraweera" title="Mahanama Samaraweera">Mahanama Samaraweera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._A._Wickramasinghe" title="S. A. Wickramasinghe">S. A. Wickramasinghe</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Uva_Province" title="Uva Province">Uva Province</a> (7)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/W._P._G._Ariyadasa" title="W. P. G. Ariyadasa">W. P. G. Ariyadasa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._D._Goonaratne" title="K. D. Goonaratne">K. D. Goonaratne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Y._G._Jayasinghe" title="Y. G. Jayasinghe">Y. G. Jayasinghe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._C._T._Kotelawala" title="J. C. T. Kotelawala">J. C. T. Kotelawala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._A._Peeris" title="S. A. Peeris">S. A. Peeris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._M._P._Rajaratne" title="K. M. P. Rajaratne">K. M. P. Rajaratne</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kusuma_Rajaratne" title="Kusuma Rajaratne">Kusuma Rajaratne</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/W._G._M._Albert_Silva" title="W. G. M. Albert Silva">W. G. M. Albert Silva</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Western_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="Western Province, Sri Lanka">Western Province</a> (20)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/S._D._Bandaranayake" title="S. D. Bandaranayake">S. D. Bandaranayake</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colvin_R._de_Silva" title="Colvin R. de Silva">Colvin R. de Silva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stanley_de_Zoysa" title="Stanley de Zoysa">Stanley de Zoysa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Razik_Fareed" title="Razik Fareed">Razik Fareed</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hector_Fernando" title="Hector Fernando">Hector Fernando</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meryl_Fernando" title="Meryl Fernando">Meryl Fernando</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leslie_Goonewardene" title="Leslie Goonewardene">Leslie Goonewardene</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vivienne_Goonewardene" title="Vivienne Goonewardene">Vivienne Goonewardene</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cholomondeley_Goonewardene" title="Cholomondeley Goonewardene">Cholomondeley Goonewardene</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Gunawardena" title="Robert Gunawardena">Robert Gunawardena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_Gunawardena" title="Philip Gunawardena">Philip Gunawardena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pieter_Keuneman" title="Pieter Keuneman">Pieter Keuneman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anil_Moonesinghe" title="Anil Moonesinghe">Anil Moonesinghe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sagara_Palansuriya" title="Sagara Palansuriya">Sagara Palansuriya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dayasena_Pasqual" title="Dayasena Pasqual">Dayasena Pasqual</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Gotabhaya_Senanayake" title="Richard Gotabhaya Senanayake">Richard Gotabhaya Senanayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bernard_Soysa" title="Bernard Soysa">Bernard Soysa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._S._Themis" title="M. S. Themis">M. S. Themis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vimala_Wijewardene" title="Vimala Wijewardene">Vimala Wijewardene</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Appointed (6)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/M._P._Drahaman" title="M. P. Drahaman">M. P. Drahaman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R._P._Gaddum" title="R. P. Gaddum">R. P. Gaddum</a> (<a href="/wiki/Oswald_Boyd_Forbes" title="Oswald Boyd Forbes">O. B. Forbes</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rosslyn_Koch" title="Rosslyn Koch">Rosslyn Koch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._R._Murray" title="J. R. Murray">J. R. Murray</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R._S._V._Poulier" title="R. S. V. Poulier">R. S. V. Poulier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Singleton-Salmon" title="Robert Singleton-Salmon">R. 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Nugawela</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theodore_Braybrooke_Panabokke" title="Theodore Braybrooke Panabokke">T. B. Panabokke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/H._B._Rambukwella" title="H. B. Rambukwella">H. B. Rambukwella</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abeyratne_Ratnayaka" title="Abeyratne Ratnayaka">Abeyratne Ratnayaka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/E._L._Senanayake" title="E. L. Senanayake">E. L. Senanayake</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fredrick_de_Silva" title="Fredrick de Silva">Fredrick de Silva</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/P._H._C._Silva" title="P. H. C. Silva">P. H. C. Silva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/P._P._Sumanatilaka" class="mw-redirect" title="P. P. Sumanatilaka">P. P. Sumanatilaka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/H._B._Tenne" title="H. B. Tenne">H. B. Tenne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukku_Banda_Unamboowe" title="Ukku Banda Unamboowe">Ukku Banda Unamboowe</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="Eastern Province, Sri Lanka">Eastern Province</a> (7)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/M._M._Ebrahim" title="M. M. Ebrahim">M. M. Ebrahim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R._B._Kadramer" title="R. B. Kadramer">R. B. Kadramer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._M._Merza" title="A. M. Merza">A. M. Merza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._E._H._Mohamed_Ali" title="M. E. H. Mohamed Ali">M. E. H. Mohamed Ali</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V._Nalliah" title="V. Nalliah">V. Nalliah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/N._R._Rajavarothiam" title="N. R. Rajavarothiam">N. R. Rajavarothiam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._M._Rasamanickam" title="S. M. Rasamanickam">S. M. Rasamanickam</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Northern_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="Northern Province, Sri Lanka">Northern Province</a> (9)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/V._Kumaraswamy" title="V. Kumaraswamy">V. Kumaraswamy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._Natesan" title="S. Natesan">S. Natesan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/G._G._Ponnambalam" title="G. G. Ponnambalam">G. G. Ponnambalam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/T._Ramalingam" title="T. Ramalingam">T. Ramalingam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._Sittampalam" title="C. Sittampalam">C. Sittampalam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._Suntharalingam" title="C. Suntharalingam">C. Suntharalingam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Thambiayah" title="Alfred Thambiayah">Alfred Thambiayah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._Vanniasingam" title="C. Vanniasingam">C. Vanniasingam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V._Veerasingam" title="V. Veerasingam">V. Veerasingam</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/North_Central_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="North Central Province, Sri Lanka">North Central Province</a> (5)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/P._B._Bulankulame" title="P. B. Bulankulame">P. B. Bulankulame</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._P._de_Silva" title="C. P. de Silva">C. P. de Silva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._H._Mahadiulwewa" title="S. H. Mahadiulwewa">S. H. Mahadiulwewa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/T._B._Poholiyadde" title="T. B. Poholiyadde">T. B. Poholiyadde</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maithripala_Senanayake" title="Maithripala Senanayake">Maithripala Senanayake</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/North_Western_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="North Western Province, Sri Lanka">North Western Province</a> (10)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Shirley_Corea" title="Shirley Corea">Shirley Corea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ivan_Dassanayake" title="Ivan Dassanayake">Ivan Dassanayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kavisena_Herath" title="Kavisena Herath">Kavisena Herath</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/I._M._R._A._Iriyagolle" title="I. M. R. A. Iriyagolle">I. M. R. A. Iriyagolle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hameed_Hussain_Sheikh_Ismail" title="Hameed Hussain Sheikh Ismail">Hameed Hussain Sheikh Ismail</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Kotelawala" title="John Kotelawala">John Kotelawala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Peries" title="Albert Peries">Albert Peries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Gotabhaya_Senanayake" title="Richard Gotabhaya Senanayake">Richard Gotabhaya Senanayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tikiri_Banda_Subasinghe" title="Tikiri Banda Subasinghe">Tikiri Banda Subasinghe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dingiri_Bandara_Welagedara" title="Dingiri Bandara Welagedara">Dingiri Bandara Welagedara</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Sabaragamuwa_Province" title="Sabaragamuwa Province">Sabaragamuwa Province</a> (10)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/C._E._Attygalle" title="C. E. Attygalle">C. E. Attygalle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._R._Beligammana" title="C. R. Beligammana">C. R. Beligammana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/N._H._Keerthiratne" title="N. H. Keerthiratne">N. H. Keerthiratne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._E._B._Kiriella" title="A. E. B. Kiriella">A. E. B. Kiriella</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/E._W._Mathew" title="E. W. Mathew">E. W. Mathew</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Francis_Molamure_Jr" title="Alexander Francis Molamure Jr">Alexander Francis Molamure</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/N._M._Perera" title="N. M. Perera">N. M. Perera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Samarakkody" title="Edmund Samarakkody">Edmund Samarakkody</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dudley_Senanayake" title="Dudley Senanayake">Dudley Senanayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harold_Weragama" title="Harold Weragama">Harold Weragama</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Southern_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="Southern Province, Sri Lanka">Southern Province</a> (12)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Abeywickrema" title="Henry Abeywickrema">Henry Abeywickrema</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wijeyananda_Dahanayake" title="Wijeyananda Dahanayake">Wijeyananda Dahanayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neal_de_Alwis" title="Neal de Alwis">Neal de Alwis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_de_Silva" title="William de Silva">William de Silva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ian_de_Zoysa" title="Ian de Zoysa">Ian de Zoysa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._A._Dharmapala" title="C. A. Dharmapala">C. A. Dharmapala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Edirisuriya" title="Charles Edirisuriya">Charles Edirisuriya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Montague_Jayawickrama" title="Montague Jayawickrama">Montague Jayawickrama</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._A._Rajapaksa" title="D. A. Rajapaksa">D. A. Rajapaksa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V._G._W._Ratnayake" title="V. G. W. Ratnayake">V. G. W. Ratnayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahanama_Samaraweera" title="Mahanama Samaraweera">Mahanama Samaraweera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doreen_Young_Wickremasinghe" title="Doreen Young Wickremasinghe">Doreen Young Wickremasinghe</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Uva_Province" title="Uva Province">Uva Province</a> (7)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/M._B._Bambarapane" title="M. B. Bambarapane">M. B. Bambarapane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leo_Fernando" title="Leo Fernando">Leo Fernando</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gladwin_Kotelawala" title="Gladwin Kotelawala">Gladwin Kotelawala</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._C._T._Kotelawala" title="J. C. T. Kotelawala">J. C. T. Kotelawala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._A._Peeris" title="S. A. Peeris">S. A. Peeris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._A._Rambukpota" title="J. A. Rambukpota">J. A. Rambukpota</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/E._B._Dimbulane" title="E. B. Dimbulane">E. B. Dimbulane</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilfred_A._Ratwatte" title="Wilfred A. Ratwatte">Wilfred A. Ratwatte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._D._Sugathadasa" title="K. D. Sugathadasa">K. D. Sugathadasa</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Western_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="Western Province, Sri Lanka">Western Province</a> (20)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/A._N._D._A._Abeysinghe" title="A. N. D. A. Abeysinghe">A. N. D. A. Abeysinghe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._E._Amaratunga" title="J. E. Amaratunga">John Amaratunga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._D._Bandaranayake" title="S. D. Bandaranayake">S. D. Bandaranayake</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Somaweera_Chandrasiri" title="Somaweera Chandrasiri">Somaweera Chandrasiri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/P._Andrew_Cooray" title="P. Andrew Cooray">P. Andrew Cooray</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Razik_Fareed" title="Razik Fareed">Razik Fareed</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kusumasiri_Gunawardena" title="Kusumasiri Gunawardena">Kusumasiri Gunawardena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Gunawardena" title="Robert Gunawardena">Robert Gunawardena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._de_Silva_Jayasinghe" title="S. de Silva Jayasinghe">S. de Silva Jayasinghe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._P._Jayasuriya" title="D. P. Jayasuriya">D. P. Jayasuriya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._D._H._Jayawardena" title="M. D. H. Jayawardena">M. D. H. Jayawardena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/T._F._Jayewardene" title="T. F. Jayewardene">T. F. Jayewardene</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._R._Jayewardene" title="J. R. Jayewardene">J. R. Jayewardene</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._C._M._Kaleel" title="M. C. M. Kaleel">M. C. M. Kaleel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._W._W._Kannangara" title="C. W. W. Kannangara">C. W. W. Kannangara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._C._W._Kannangara" title="D. C. W. Kannangara">D. C. W. Kannangara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pieter_Keuneman" title="Pieter Keuneman">Pieter Keuneman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyril_E._S._Perera" title="Cyril E. S. Perera">Cyril E. S. Perera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilmot_A._Perera" title="Wilmot A. Perera">Wilmot A. Perera</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Appointed (6)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/R._P._Gaddum" title="R. P. Gaddum">R. P. Gaddum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rosslyn_Koch" title="Rosslyn Koch">Rosslyn Koch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._R._Murray" title="J. R. Murray">J. R. Murray</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V._R._S._Schokman" title="V. R. S. Schokman">V. R. S. Schokman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Singleton-Salmon" title="Robert Singleton-Salmon">Robert Singleton-Salmon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._C._Tutein-Nolthenius" title="A. C. Tutein-Nolthenius">A. C. Tutein-Nolthenius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._P._Vythilingam" title="S. P. Vythilingam">S. P. 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S. Senanayake">D. S. Senanayake</a>/<a href="/wiki/Dudley_Senanayake" title="Dudley Senanayake">Dudley Senanayake</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_Opposition_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Leader of the Opposition (Sri Lanka)">Leader of the Opposition</a>:</b> <a href="/wiki/N._M._Perera" title="N. M. Perera">N. M. Perera</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Central_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="Central Province, Sri Lanka">Central Province</a> (15)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/M._D._Banda" title="M. D. Banda">M. D. Banda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_E._de_Silva" title="George E. de Silva">George E. de Silva</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/T._B._Ilangaratne" title="T. B. Ilangaratne">T. B. Ilangaratne</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tamara_Kumari_Ilangaratne" class="mw-redirect" title="Tamara Kumari Ilangaratne">Tamara Kumari Ilangaratne</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Senerat_Gunewardene" title="Senerat Gunewardene">Senerat Gunewardene</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/R._S._Pelpola" title="R. S. Pelpola">R. S. Pelpola</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karuppiah_Kumaravelu" title="Karuppiah Kumaravelu">Karuppiah Kumaravelu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/G._R._Motha" title="G. R. Motha">G. R. Motha</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abdul_Aziz_(Sri_Lankan_politician)" title="Abdul Aziz (Sri Lankan politician)">Abdul Aziz</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V._T._Nanayakkara" title="V. T. Nanayakkara">V. T. Nanayakkara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/E._A._Nugawela" title="E. A. Nugawela">E. A. Nugawela</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theodore_Braybrooke_Panabokke" title="Theodore Braybrooke Panabokke">T. B. Panabokke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/H._R._U._Premachandra" title="H. R. U. Premachandra">H. R. U. Premachandra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._Rajalingam" title="K. Rajalingam">K. Rajalingam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/H._B._Rambukwella" title="H. B. Rambukwella">H. B. Rambukwella</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abeyratne_Ratnayaka" title="Abeyratne Ratnayaka">Abeyratne Ratnayaka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/H._B._Tenne" title="H. B. Tenne">H. B. Tenne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Savumiamoorthy_Thondaman" title="Savumiamoorthy Thondaman">Savumiamoorthy Thondaman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._V._Velupillai" title="C. V. Velupillai">C. V. Velupillai</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="Eastern Province, Sri Lanka">Eastern Province</a> (7)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/A._R._A._M._Abubucker" title="A. R. A. M. Abubucker">A. R. A. M. Abubucker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._U._Ethirmanasingham" title="S. U. Ethirmanasingham">S. U. Ethirmanasingham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._M._Ebrahim" title="M. M. Ebrahim">M. M. Ebrahim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._S._Kariapper" title="M. S. Kariapper">M. S. Kariapper</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ahamed_Lebbe_Sinne_Lebbe" title="Ahamed Lebbe Sinne Lebbe">Ahamed Lebbe Sinne Lebbe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V._Nalliah" title="V. Nalliah">V. Nalliah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._Sivapalan" title="S. Sivapalan">S. Sivapalan</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Northern_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="Northern Province, Sri Lanka">Northern Province</a> (9)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/S._J._V._Chelvanayakam" title="S. J. V. Chelvanayakam">S. J. V. Chelvanayakam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._Kanagaratnam" title="K. Kanagaratnam">K. Kanagaratnam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V._Kumaraswamy" title="V. Kumaraswamy">V. Kumaraswamy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/G._G._Ponnambalam" title="G. G. Ponnambalam">G. G. Ponnambalam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/T._Ramalingam" title="T. Ramalingam">T. Ramalingam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._Sittampalam" title="C. Sittampalam">C. Sittampalam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._Suntharalingam" title="C. Suntharalingam">C. Suntharalingam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Thambiayah" title="Alfred Thambiayah">Alfred Thambiayah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._Vanniasingam" title="C. Vanniasingam">C. Vanniasingam</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/North_Central_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="North Central Province, Sri Lanka">North Central Province</a> (5)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/P._L._Bauddhasara" title="P. L. Bauddhasara">P. L. Bauddhasara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/P._B._Bulankulame" title="P. B. Bulankulame">P. B. Bulankulame</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._H._Mahadiulwewa" title="S. H. Mahadiulwewa">S. H. Mahadiulwewa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/T._B._Poholiyadde" title="T. B. Poholiyadde">T. B. Poholiyadde</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maithripala_Senanayake" title="Maithripala Senanayake">Maithripala Senanayake</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/North_Western_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="North Western Province, Sri Lanka">North Western Province</a> (10)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ivan_Dassanayake" title="Ivan Dassanayake">Ivan Dassanayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._J._Fernando" title="J. J. Fernando">J. J. Fernando</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kavisena_Herath" title="Kavisena Herath">Kavisena Herath</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/I._M._R._A._Iriyagolle" title="I. M. R. A. Iriyagolle">I. M. R. A. Iriyagolle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hameed_Hussain_Sheikh_Ismail" title="Hameed Hussain Sheikh Ismail">Hameed Hussain Sheikh Ismail</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Kotelawala" title="John Kotelawala">John Kotelawala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Peries" title="Albert Peries">Albert Peries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Gotabhaya_Senanayake" title="Richard Gotabhaya Senanayake">Richard Gotabhaya Senanayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herbert_Sri_Nissanka" title="Herbert Sri Nissanka">Herbert Sri Nissanka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tikiri_Banda_Subasinghe" title="Tikiri Banda Subasinghe">Tikiri Banda Subasinghe</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Sabaragamuwa_Province" title="Sabaragamuwa Province">Sabaragamuwa Province</a> (10)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/C._E._Attygalle" title="C. E. Attygalle">C. E. Attygalle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._F._Hettiarachchi" title="D. F. Hettiarachchi">D. F. Hettiarachchi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/N._H._Keerthiratne" title="N. H. Keerthiratne">N. H. Keerthiratne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/E._W._Mathew" title="E. W. Mathew">E. W. Mathew</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Francis_Molamure" title="Alexander Francis Molamure">Alexander Francis Molamure</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jayaweera_Kuruppu" title="Jayaweera Kuruppu">Jayaweera Kuruppu</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/N._M._Perera" title="N. M. Perera">N. M. Perera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reginald_Perera" title="Reginald Perera">Reginald Perera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harris_Leuke_Ratwatte" title="Harris Leuke Ratwatte">Harris Leuke Ratwatte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dudley_Senanayake" title="Dudley Senanayake">Dudley Senanayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Florence_Senanayake" title="Florence Senanayake">Florence Senanayake</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Southern_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="Southern Province, Sri Lanka">Southern Province</a> (12)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/H._D._Abeygoonewardane" title="H. D. Abeygoonewardane">H. D. Abeygoonewardane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simon_Abeywickrema" title="Simon Abeywickrema">Simon Abeywickrema</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/H._W._Amarasuriya" title="H. W. Amarasuriya">H. W. Amarasuriya</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wijeyananda_Dahanayake" title="Wijeyananda Dahanayake">Wijeyananda Dahanayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_de_Silva" title="William de Silva">William de Silva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_de_Zoysa" title="Arthur de Zoysa">Arthur de Zoysa</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Walwin_de_Silva" title="Walwin de Silva">Walwin de Silva</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._S._Goonesekera" title="D. S. Goonesekera">D. S. Goonesekera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Montague_Jayawickrama" title="Montague Jayawickrama">Montague Jayawickrama</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/P._Kumarasiri" title="P. Kumarasiri">P. Kumarasiri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._A._Rajapaksa" title="D. A. Rajapaksa">D. A. Rajapaksa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lakshman_Rajapaksa" title="Lakshman Rajapaksa">Lakshman Rajapaksa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V._G._W._Ratnayake" title="V. G. W. Ratnayake">V. G. W. Ratnayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/W._Wickremasinghe" title="W. Wickremasinghe">W. Wickremasinghe</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Uva_Province" title="Uva Province">Uva Province</a> (7)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Leo_Fernando" title="Leo Fernando">Leo Fernando</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._C._T._Kotelawala" title="J. C. T. Kotelawala">J. C. T. Kotelawala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._V._Nadarajah" title="K. V. Nadarajah">K. V. Nadarajah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._Ramanujam" class="mw-redirect" title="D. Ramanujam">D. Ramanujam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._A._Rambukpota" title="J. A. Rambukpota">J. A. Rambukpota</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._M._Subbaiah" title="S. M. Subbaiah">S. M. Subbaiah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._D._Sugathadasa" title="K. D. Sugathadasa">K. D. Sugathadasa</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Western_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="Western Province, Sri Lanka">Western Province</a> (20)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Somaweera_Chandrasiri" title="Somaweera Chandrasiri">Somaweera Chandrasiri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R._A._de_Mel" title="R. A. de Mel">R. A. de Mel</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/T._F._Jayewardene" title="T. F. Jayewardene">T. F. Jayewardene</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colvin_R._de_Silva" title="Colvin R. de Silva">Colvin R. de Silva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_R._de_Silva" title="George R. de Silva">George R. de Silva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._Ekanayake_Gunasinha" title="A. Ekanayake Gunasinha">A. Ekanayake Gunasinha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cholomondeley_Goonewardene" title="Cholomondeley Goonewardene">Cholomondeley Goonewardene</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_Gunawardena" title="Philip Gunawardena">Philip Gunawardena</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kusumasiri_Gunawardena" title="Kusumasiri Gunawardena">Kusumasiri Gunawardena</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Gunawardena" title="Robert Gunawardena">Robert Gunawardena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/T._B._Jayah" title="T. B. Jayah">T. B. Jayah</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/M._C._M._Kaleel" title="M. C. M. Kaleel">M. C. M. Kaleel</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._P._Jayasuriya" title="A. P. Jayasuriya">A. P. Jayasuriya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._P._Jayasuriya" title="D. P. Jayasuriya">D. P. Jayasuriya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._R._Jayewardene" title="J. R. Jayewardene">J. R. Jayewardene</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._D._Karunaratne" title="D. D. Karunaratne">D. D. Karunaratne</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/P._P._Jayawardena" title="P. P. Jayawardena">P. P. Jayawardena</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pieter_Keuneman" title="Pieter Keuneman">Pieter Keuneman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilmot_A._Perera" title="Wilmot A. Perera">Wilmot A. Perera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Peiris" title="Henry Peiris">Henry Peiris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._S._Senanayake" title="D. S. Senanayake">D. S. Senanayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._A._Silva" title="S. A. Silva">S. A. Silva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/H._de_Z._Siriwardena" title="H. de Z. Siriwardena">H. de Z. Siriwardena</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Appointed (6)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Frederick_Noel_Gratiaen" class="mw-redirect" title="Edward Frederick Noel Gratiaen">E. F. N. Gratiaen</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rosslyn_Koch" title="Rosslyn Koch">Rosslyn Koch</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Huntly_Griffith" title="Francis Huntly Griffith">F. H. Griffith</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Singleton-Salmon" title="Robert Singleton-Salmon">R. Singleton-Salmon</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Aubrey_Martensz" title="James Aubrey Martensz">J. A. Martenze</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_William_Oldfield" title="John William Oldfield">J. W. Oldfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sidney_Arnold_Pakeman" title="Sidney Arnold Pakeman">S. A. Pakeman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Roland_Whitby" title="George Roland Whitby">G. R. 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A. Nugawela">E. A. Nugawela</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Senerat_Gunewardene" title="Senerat Gunewardene">Senerat Gunewardene</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._Natesa_Iyer" title="K. Natesa Iyer">K. Natesa Iyer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_E._de_Silva" title="George E. de Silva">George E. de Silva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bernard_Aluwihare" title="Bernard Aluwihare">Bernard Aluwihare</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/E._W._Abeygunasekera" title="E. W. Abeygunasekera">E. W. Abeygunasekera</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/M._D._Banda" title="M. D. Banda">M. D. Banda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bennet_Soysa" title="Bennet Soysa">Bennet Soysa</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._P._Vythilingam" title="S. P. Vythilingam">S. P. Vythilingam</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="Eastern Province, Sri Lanka">Eastern Province</a> (2)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/S._O._Canagaratnam" title="S. O. Canagaratnam">S. O. Canagaratnam</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/S._Dharmaretnam" title="S. Dharmaretnam">S. Dharmaretnam</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/E._R._Tambimuttu" title="E. R. Tambimuttu">E. R. Tambimuttu</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/V._Nalliah" title="V. Nalliah">V. Nalliah</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Northern_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="Northern Province, Sri Lanka">Northern Province</a> (5)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arunachalam_Mahadeva" title="Arunachalam Mahadeva">Arunachalam Mahadeva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._Natesan" title="S. Natesan">S. Natesan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waithilingam_Duraiswamy" title="Waithilingam Duraiswamy">Waithilingam Duraiswamy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R._Sri_Pathmanathan" title="R. Sri Pathmanathan">R. Sri Pathmanathan</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/J._I._Gnanamuttu" title="J. I. Gnanamuttu">Joseph Isaac Gnanamuttu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._Tyagaraja" title="J. Tyagaraja">Jaganathan Tyagaraja</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/G._G._Ponnambalam" title="G. G. Ponnambalam">G. G. Ponnambalam</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/North_Central_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="North Central Province, Sri Lanka">North Central Province</a> (1)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/H._R._Freeman" title="H. R. Freeman">H. R. Freeman</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/P._B._Bulankulame" title="P. B. Bulankulame">P. B. Bulankulame</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/North_Western_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="North Western Province, Sri Lanka">North Western Province</a> (5)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Claude_Corea" title="Claude Corea">Claude Corea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R._S._Tennekoon" title="R. S. Tennekoon">R. S. Tennekoon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Kotelawala" title="John Kotelawala">John Kotelawala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siripala_Samarakkody" title="Siripala Samarakkody">Siripala Samarakkody</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Gotabhaya_Senanayake" title="Richard Gotabhaya Senanayake">Richard Gotabhaya Senanayake</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._H._Ilangantileke" title="J. H. Ilangantileke">J. H. Ilangantileke</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/U._B._Wanninayake" title="U. B. Wanninayake">U. B. Wanninayake</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Sabaragamuwa_Province" title="Sabaragamuwa Province">Sabaragamuwa Province</a> (5)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/H._A._Goonesekera" title="H. A. Goonesekera">H. A. Goonesekera</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Francis_Molamure" title="Alexander Francis Molamure">Alexander Francis Molamure</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/N._M._Perera" title="N. M. Perera">N. M. Perera</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Edward_Jayatilaka" title="Robert Edward Jayatilaka">Robert Edward Jayatilaka</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dudley_Senanayake" title="Dudley Senanayake">Dudley Senanayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harris_Leuke_Ratwatte" title="Harris Leuke Ratwatte">Harris Leuke Ratwatte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jayaweera_Kuruppu" title="Jayaweera Kuruppu">Jayaweera Kuruppu</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Southern_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="Southern Province, Sri Lanka">Southern Province</a> (7)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Francis_de_Zoysa" title="Francis de Zoysa">Francis de Zoysa</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Patrick_de_Silva_Kularatne" title="Patrick de Silva Kularatne">Patrick de Silva Kularatne</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/H._W._Amarasuriya" title="H. W. Amarasuriya">H. W. Amarasuriya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._M._Rajapaksa" title="D. M. Rajapaksa">D. M. Rajapaksa</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/D._A._Rajapaksa" title="D. A. Rajapaksa">D. A. Rajapaksa</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raja_Hewavitarne" title="Raja Hewavitarne">Raja Hewavitarne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R._C._Kannangara" title="R. C. Kannangara">R. C. Kannangara</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/S._A._Wickramasinghe" title="S. A. Wickramasinghe">S. A. Wickramasinghe</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neil_Hewavitarne" title="Neil Hewavitarne">Neil Hewavitarne</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Simon_Abeywickrema" title="Simon Abeywickrema">Simon Abeywickrema</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Wanigasekera" title="David Wanigasekera">David Wanigasekera</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Uva_Province" title="Uva Province">Uva Province</a> (3)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Kotelawala" title="Henry Kotelawala">Henry Kotelawala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._D._Gunasekera" title="D. D. Gunasekera">D. D. Gunasekera</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/J._G._Rajakulendran" title="J. G. Rajakulendran">J. G. Rajakulendran</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/G._C._Rambukpotha" title="G. C. Rambukpotha">G. C. Rambukpotha</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wijeyananda_Dahanayake" title="Wijeyananda Dahanayake">Wijeyananda Dahanayake</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Western_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="Western Province, Sri Lanka">Western Province</a> (14)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Philip_Gunawardena" title="Philip Gunawardena">Philip Gunawardena</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bernard_Jayasuriya" title="Bernard Jayasuriya">Bernard Jayasuriya</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._E._Goonesinha" class="mw-redirect" title="A. E. Goonesinha">A. E. Goonesinha</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/M._C._M._Kaleel" title="M. C. M. Kaleel">M. C. M. Kaleel</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_R._de_Silva" title="George R. de Silva">George R. de Silva</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Naysum_Saravanamuttu" title="Naysum Saravanamuttu">Naysum Saravanamuttu</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._P._de_Zoysa" title="A. P. de Zoysa">A. P. de Zoysa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._P._Jayasuriya" title="D. P. Jayasuriya">D. P. Jayasuriya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._P._Jayasuriya" title="A. P. Jayasuriya">A. P. Jayasuriya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Batuwantudawe" title="Charles Batuwantudawe">Charles Batuwantudawe</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Upali_Batuwantudawe" title="Upali Batuwantudawe">Upali Batuwantudawe</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Don_Baron_Jayatilaka" title="Don Baron Jayatilaka">Don Baron Jayatilaka</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/J._R._Jayewardene" title="J. R. Jayewardene">J. R. Jayewardene</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._W._W._Kannangara" title="C. W. W. Kannangara">C. W. W. Kannangara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._S._Senanayake" title="D. S. Senanayake">D. S. Senanayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/W._A._de_Silva" title="W. A. de Silva">W. A. de Silva</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Amarasuriya" title="Thomas Amarasuriya">Thomas Amarasuriya</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._E._Rajapakse" title="A. E. Rajapakse">A. E. Rajapakse</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/C._E._P._de_Silva" title="C. E. P. de Silva">C. E. P. de Silva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/H._de_Z._Siriwardena" title="H. de Z. Siriwardena">H. de Z. Siriwardena</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Susantha_de_Fonseka" title="Susantha de Fonseka">Susantha de Fonseka</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">S. W. R. D. 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F. Molamure</a> (1931–34); <a href="/wiki/Forester_Augustus_Obeysekera" class="mw-redirect" title="Forester Augustus Obeysekera">F. A. Obeysekera</a> (1934–35)<br /></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Chief_Secretary_of_Ceylon" title="Chief Secretary of Ceylon">Chief Secretary</a>:</b> <a href="/wiki/Bernard_Henry_Bourdillon" title="Bernard Henry Bourdillon">Bernard Henry Bourdillon</a> (1931-1935)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Central_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="Central Province, Sri Lanka">Central Province</a> (7)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/E._W._Abeygunasekera" title="E. W. Abeygunasekera">E. W. Abeygunasekera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_E._de_Silva" title="George E. de Silva">George E. de Silva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/W._T._B._Karaliadda" title="W. T. B. Karaliadda">W. T. B. Karaliadda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/T._B._Panabokke" class="mw-redirect" title="T. B. Panabokke">T. B. Panabokke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/G._G._Ponnambalam" title="G. G. Ponnambalam">G. G. Ponnambalam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peri_Sundaram" title="Peri Sundaram">Peri Sundaram</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._P._Vythilingam" title="S. P. Vythilingam">S. P. Vythilingam</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="Eastern Province, Sri Lanka">Eastern Province</a> (2)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/A._H._Macan_Markar" class="mw-redirect" title="A. H. Macan Markar">A. H. Macan Markar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._M._Subramaniam" title="M. M. Subramaniam">M. M. Subramaniam</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Northern_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="Northern Province, Sri Lanka">Northern Province</a> (4)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arunachalam_Mahadeva" title="Arunachalam Mahadeva">Arunachalam Mahadeva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._Natesan" title="S. Natesan">S. Natesan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._A._Seemanpillai" class="mw-redirect" title="M. A. Seemanpillai">M. A. Seemanpillai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nevins_Selvadurai" title="Nevins Selvadurai">Nevins Selvadurai</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/North_Central_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="North Central Province, Sri Lanka">North Central Province</a> (1)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/H._R._Freeman" title="H. R. Freeman">H. R. Freeman</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/North_Western_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="North Western Province, Sri Lanka">North Western Province</a> (5)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Kotelawala" title="John Kotelawala">John Kotelawala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Claude_Corea" title="Claude Corea">Claude Corea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_De_Mel" title="Henry De Mel">Henry De Mel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Godfrey_Edward_Madawala" title="Godfrey Edward Madawala">Godfrey Edward Madawala</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/W._H._de_S._Jayasundara" title="W. H. de S. Jayasundara">W. H. de S. Jayasundara</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R._S._Tennekoon" title="R. S. Tennekoon">R. S. Tennekoon</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Sabaragamuwa_Province" title="Sabaragamuwa Province">Sabaragamuwa Province</a> (6)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abeyratne_Ratnayaka" title="Abeyratne Ratnayaka">Abeyratne Ratnayaka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._J._Wimalasurendra" title="D. J. Wimalasurendra">D. J. Wimalasurendra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adeline_Molamure" title="Adeline Molamure">Adeline Molamure</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/F._A._Obeysekera" class="mw-redirect" title="F. A. Obeysekera">F. A. Obeysekera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cudah_Ratwatte" title="Cudah Ratwatte">Cudah Ratwatte</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/T._G._Jayewardene" title="T. G. Jayewardene">T. G. 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