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Jayewardene Family
The Jayewardene family is a Sri Lankan family that is prominent in law and politics. Along with many members who have been successful politician across generations, the family includes Presidents and Prime Ministers of Sri Lanka. History A paternal ancestor of the Jayewardene family has been traced to Don Adrian Wijesinghe Jayewardene, a descendant from a Chetty family that had emigrated to Sri Lankan from the Coromandel Coast during the Kandyan period and settled close to Dutch-controlled Colombo. Don Adrian married a Sinhalese by the name of Jayewardene from the village of Welgama near Hanvalla taking the name Jayewardene. Don Adrian was employed as a spy for the Dutch East India Company and was captured by the British. He was speared from an immediate execution, which was the custom for captured spies. With the withdrawal of the Dutch, Don Adrian was employed by the British as a spy master, gathering intelligence during the regular skirmishes along the Kandyan boarder. He was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colombo
Colombo, ( ; , ; , ), is the executive and judicial capital and largest city of Sri Lanka by population. The Colombo metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of 5.6 million, and 752,993 within the municipal limits. It is the financial centre of the island and a tourist destination. It is located on the west coast of the island and adjacent to the Greater Colombo area which includes Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, the legislative capital of Sri Lanka, and Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia. Colombo is often referred to as the capital since Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is situated within the Colombo metro area. It is also the administrative capital of the Western Province and the district capital of Colombo District. Colombo is a busy and vibrant city with a mixture of modern life, colonial buildings and monuments. It was made the capital of the island when Sri Lanka was ceded to the British Empire in 1815, retaining its capital status when Sri Lanka gained independence in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugene Wilfred Jayewardene
Eugene Wilfred Jayewardene, KC ( Sinhala:යුජින් විල්ෆ්රඩ් ජයවර්ධන; 11 June 1874 – 23 November 1932) was a Ceylonese (Sri Lankan) judge, lawyer and politician. He was a Judge of the Supreme Court of Ceylon and the father of J. R. Jayewardene, the first executive President of Sri Lanka. Early life and education Born on 11 June 1874, to James Alfred Jayewardene, a proctor who was the Deputy Coroner of Colombo. Jayewardene was educated at the Colombo Academy. In 1897, he served as the acting private secretary to Justice Granier before leaving for England for his studies in law. After being called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1908 as a barrister, he returned to Ceylon and started a legal career as an advocate. He was the president of the Law Students' Union. He joined the Ceylon Light Infantry, became a volunteer officer of the Ceylon Defence Force as second lieutenant and later made captain. Legal career Jayewardene devel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hector Alfred Jayewardene
Hector Alfred Wijesinghe Jayewardene (22 July 1870 – 16 October 1913) was a Ceylonese (Sri Lankan) politician and a prominent lawyer. He was active in the political movement in Ceylon. He was an elected member of the Colombo Municipal Council for twenty years. Born to James Alfred Jayewardene, a Proctor who was the Deputy Coroner of Colombo. His younger brothers included Colonel Theodore Godfrey Wijesinghe Jayewardene was a member of the State Council for Balangoda electorate, John Adrian St. Valentine Jayewardene and Eugene Wilfred Jayewardene who became judges of the Supreme Court. Wilfred Jayewardene was educated at St. Benedict's College, Wesley College and at the Royal College, Colombo and became a Proctor in 1893. In 1895 he was elected to the Colombo Municipal Council from the New Bazaar ward and held the post till his death. He was instrumental in Sir Ponnambalam Ramanathan winning the election for the seat of educated Ceylonese in the Legislative Council of Ceyl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Proctor
Proctor (a variant of ''wikt:procurator, procurator'') is a person who takes charge of, or acts for, another. The title is used in England and some other English-speaking countries in three principal contexts: # In law, a proctor is a historical class of lawyers, and the King's (or Queen's) Proctor is a senior government lawyer. # In religion, a proctor represents the clergy in Church of England dioceses. # In education, proctor is the name of university officials in certain universities. In the United States and some other countries, the word "proctor" is frequently used to describe someone who supervises an Test (assessment), examination (i.e. a supervisor or Exam invigilator, invigilator). Law England A proctor was a legal practitioner in the ecclesiastical court, ecclesiastical and admiralty courts in England. These courts were distinguished from the common law courts and courts of equity because they applied "civil law" derived from Roman law, instead of English common law ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kachcheri
A kachcheri or district secretariat is the principal government department that administrates a district in Sri Lanka. Each of the 25 districts has a kachcheri. The main tasks of the District Secretariat involve coordinating communications and activities of the central government and Divisional Secretariats. The District Secretariat is also responsible for implementing and monitoring development projects at the district level and assisting lower-level subdivisions in their activities, as well as revenue collection and coordination of elections in the district. The head of a District Secretariat is the ''District Secretary'' formally known as the Government Agent. Kachcheri is a Hindustani word initially used for the Revenue Collector's Office in the early years of the British Colonial Administration in Ceylon.Wickramanayake, S S, The Management of Official Records in Public Institutions in Sri Lanka: 1802–1990, p 28, Unpublished PhD Thesis, University of London, 1992 (Sri Lank ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grandpass
Grandpass is a suburb in Colombo, Sri Lanka. It is part of an area known as ''Colombo 14''. History During the Portuguese administration in Sri Lanka, the area was named Grande Passo. The name was anglicised during the British administration to become Grandpass. It was also known as Groote Pas, Pas Nacollegam and Pas van Goensdorp to the Dutch Dutch or Nederlands commonly refers to: * Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands ** Dutch people as an ethnic group () ** Dutch nationality law, history and regulations of Dutch citizenship () ** Dutch language () * In specific terms, i ... people. In the late 1800s Samuel Perera Jayatilaka (Ship Chandler) built the Sri Jayatilakaramaya Viharaya on Swarna Chaitya road. He had 13 children (7 sons and 6 daughters) including 3 sons who were lawyers Alfred Walter Perera Jayatilaka, Albert Edward Perera Jayatilaka & Samuel Victor Perera Jayatilaka. A.E.P Jayatilaka (Lawyer) had one son and one daughter Dr. Ananda Dasan Perera Jay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walauwa
Walauwa or walawwa is the name given to a feudal/Colony, colonial manor house in Sri Lanka of a Native headmen of Ceylon, native headmen. It also refers to the feudal social systems that existed during the colonial era. The term walauwa is derived from the Tamil language, Tamil word ''valavu'', which denotes a compound or garden, and by implication, a large house with aristocratic connotations. The pinnacle of walauwas in the Sinhala social stratum is the ''wasala walauwa''. Wasala is derived from the word ''Wasasathana'', meaning residence. In the Sinhalese social hierarchy, a wasala walawa would typically be the ancestral residence of a mudaliyar. Walauwas vary in style, elegance and uniqueness depending upon the financial resources of the individual families and in the village or area's social structure. Most walauwas tend to incorporate aspects of traditional pre-colonial Ceylonese architecture, as well as Dutch and later colonial influences. A walauwa usually consisted of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolvendaal Church
Wolvendaal Church (''Wolvendaalse Kerk'') is located in Pettah, Sri Lanka, Pettah, a neighbourhood of Colombo. It is one of the most important Dutch colonial-era buildings in Sri Lanka and is one of the oldest Protestant churches still in use in the country. History In 1736 the List of governors of Dutch Ceylon, governor of Ceylon, Gustaaf Willem van Imhoff, sought approval from the Dutch East India Company (''Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie'' or VOC) to demolish the existing church (''Kasteel Kerk'') within the Fort (Colombo), Colombo Fort and construct a new one on the same site. However, the VOC refused this request, and it was not until the arrival of Governor Julius Valentyn Stein van Gollenesse in 1743 that the impasse was overcome. He decided that the new church would be erected in the area beyond the city walls, which at the time was swamp and marshland. The Europeans mistook the packs of roaming jackals for wolves, and the area became known as Wolvendaal (Wolf's Dal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sri Vikrama Rajasinha
Sri Vikrama Rajasinha (Sinhala language, Sinhala:ශ්රී වික්රම රාජසිංහ, Tamil language, Tamil:ஸ்ரீ விக்கிரம ராஜசிங்கன் Telugu language, Telugu:శ్రీ విక్రమ రాజసింహ; 1780 – 30 January 1832), born Kannasamy, was the last of four kings to rule the Kingdom of Kandy in Sri Lanka. Being crowned king in 1798 with the backing of Pilamathalawe Adikaram, his Kandyan Wars, capture by the British in 1815 effectively concluded the 2,300-year Sinhalese monarchy on the island. The Nayaks of Kandy, Nayak Kings were of Telugu people, Telugu origin and practiced Shaivism, Shaivite Hinduism and were patrons of Theravada Buddhism. The Nayak rulers played a huge role in reviving Buddhism in the island. They spoke Telugu language, Telugu and Tamil language, Tamil, and used Tamil as the court language in Kandy alongside Sinhala language, Sinhala. The King was eventually deposed by the Go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John D'Oyly, 1st Baronet, Of Kandy
Sir John D'Oyly, 1st Baronet (6 June 1774 – 25 May 1824) was a British colonial administrator. Life He was the second son of Matthias D'Oyly, Archdeacon of Hastings and his wife Mary. He was educated at Westminster School and matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in 1793, graduating B.A. in 1796, M.A. in 1799. D'Oyly went out to Ceylon in 1801, initially as a writer in the civil service and then as President of various provincial courts. He mastered the Sinhalese language during a tenure at Matara under the tutelage of the scholarly Buddhist Monk; Karathota Dhammarama Nayake Thera, and for this proficiency, he was appointed as the Government's chief translator in 1805. He became an Agent of Revenue for the District of Colombo the following year. Further promotions saw him elevated through the ranks of civil and military and he was ultimately appointed to the post of Civil Auditor-General. D'Oyly had a key role in arranging for the British takeover of the Kandyan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
