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Following his father's death, his mother married secondly, in 1797, Lt.-Col. Richard Fitzgerald, who was killed in action at the Battle of Waterloo. [ 2 ] His paternal grandparents were Alexander Stewart, 6th Earl of Galloway and the former Lady Catherine Cochrane (the youngest daughter of John Cochrane, 4th Earl of Dundonald ). [ 3 ]
1st Governor of British Ceylon; In office 12 October 1798 – 19 July 1805: Monarch: George III: Preceded by: Robert Andrews (as Resident and Superintendent of British Ceylon) Succeeded by: Thomas Maitland: Personal details; Born 7 February 1766: Died: 14 October 1827 (aged 61) Parent(s) Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford (father)
In 1831, with the support of Jeremy Bentham, he was called to the English bar at Lincoln's Inn. [6] That same year, he married his friend's cousin, Letitia, co-heiress to the mercantile fortune of her father, the Belfast merchant-patrician (and former United Irishman) William Tennent. After his father-in-law's death in 1832, by royal licence ...
He refused to join the Ceylon Civil Service and instead started a law practice. In 1902 he accepted for a short time the office of District Judge of Galle. As an advocate he played a pioneering role in constitutional reform. [11] Peiris was elected Vice-President of the Legislative Council of Ceylon in 1924. The President was the Governor of ...
Arnold Wright in 'Twentieth Century Impressions of Ceylon,' writes that Gate Mudaliyar J.E.Corea owned extensive coconut estates as well as large tracts of paddy lands in Chilaw. Corea was born in Chilaw, on the west coast of Sri Lanka, on 2 December 1865. His father was Johannes Christoffel Corea who was a Mudaliyar of the Chilaw District.
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On 24 September 1947 he was invited by the Governor General of Ceylon Sir Henry Moore to form the island's first cabinet as its first Prime Minister. On 11 November 1947, Senanayake and Sir Henry signed agreements between Ceylon and Britain including a defence pact and public service agreements that paved the way for independence of Ceylon.
Upon Ceylon's independence, he was asked to become the first Ceylonese Governor General (representative of the King in Ceylon, i.e. de facto head of state), an honour he declined for personal reasons. [4] De Silva was at the pinnacle of upper-class society and, as the wealthiest Ceylonese of his generation, he defined the island's ruling class.