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[159] [160] [161] In the motion of condolence in the Parliament of Sri Lanka, President Ranil Wickremesinghe paid tribute to Queen Elizabeth II of Ceylon, as the "last of our royal line" which began with King Vijaya, and said, "As Queen of Ceylon, her reign signified the transformation of our country from Ceylon to Sri Lanka". [162] [163]
Furthermore, the traveller-monk Xuanzang, who attempted to visit Sri Lanka about 642, was told by Sri Lankan monks (possibly at Kanchipuram) that there was trouble in the kingdom, so he desisted; [30] this accords with the period of struggle for the throne between Aggabodhi III Sirisanghabo, Jettha Tissa III and Dathopa Tissa I Hatthadpath in ...
These were the last conferred under King George VI's reign as King of Ceylon, as he died on 6 February 1952. Knight Bachelor. 1952 - Sir V. Coomaraswamy CMG, Deputy High Commissioner for Ceylon in the United Kingdom. [10] [11] 1952 - Sir Lalitha Abhaya Rajapakse KC , Minister of Justice. 1952 - Sir Paules Edward Pieris Deraniyagala, CMG.
George V: 24 Hugh Clifford (1866–1941) 30 November 1925 June 1927 1 year, 6 months George V: Arthur George Murchison Fletcher (1878–1954) Acting: June 1927 20 August 1928 1 year, 2 months George V: 25 Herbert Stanley (1872–1955) 20 August 1928 11 February 1931 2 years, 175 days George V: Bernard Henry Bourdillon (1883–1948) Acting: 11 ...
William Gopallawa MBE (Sinhala: විලියම් ගොපල්ලව, Tamil: வில்லியம் கோப்பல்லாவ; 17 September 1896 – 31 January 1981) was a Sri Lankan politician and statesman who served as the last Governor-General of Ceylon from 1962 to 1972 and the first and only non-executive President of Sri Lanka from 1972 to 1978, when Ceylon declared ...
Sri Sangha Tissa I: Anuradhapura: Lambakanna I: 248 252 1,460 4 Years 65 55: Sri Sangha Bodhi I (Sirisanghabodhi) Anuradhapura: Lambakanna I: 252 254 730 2 Years 66 56: Gotabhaya: Anuradhapura: Lambakanna I: 254 267 4,745 13 Years 67 57: Jettha Tissa I (Detuthis) Anuradhapura: Lambakanna I: 267 276 3,650 10 Years 68 58: Mahasen: Anuradhapura ...
[1] [16] Peiris was appointed a justice of the peace for the whole island Govonor and was knighted in the 1925 Birthday Honours by King George V. He was the first Ceylonese occupant of Queens House as acting governor. [2] [3] Peiris was first to propose the creation of a University College in Colombo and the means of financing it.
The British Ceylon period is the history of Sri Lanka between 1815 and 1948. It follows the fall of the Kandyan Kingdom into the hands of the British Empire. [ 6 ] It ended over 2300 years of Sinhalese monarchy rule on the island. [ 7 ]