Henry 'Harry' Abdy Fellowes-Gordon (10 December 1883 – 18 May 1940) was a British tea planter and politician in Colonial

Ceylon Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, also known historically as Ceylon, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian subcontinent, ...

. Fellowes-Gordon was born in

Cupar Cupar ( ; ) is a town, former royal burgh and parish in Fife, Scotland. It lies between Dundee and Glenrothes. According to a 2011 population estimate, Cupar had a population around 9,000, making it the ninth-largest settlement in Fife, and the ...

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, Scotland, the eldest son of Henry 'Harry' Gordon Gordon-Fellowes (1858–1925), the fifteenth

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of Knockespock, and Millicent Amelia Charlotte née Blood (1862–1931). He received his education at

Wellington College, Berkshire Wellington College is a co-educational public school providing education for boarding and day pupils in the village of Crowthorne, in Berkshire, in the United Kingdom. Wellington is a registered charity and currently educates roughly 1,100 pu ...

. Fellowes-Gordon fought in the

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(1901–1902), in the

Royal Leicestershire Regiment The Leicestershire Regiment (Royal Leicestershire Regiment after 1946) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, with a history going back to 1688. The regiment saw service for three centuries, in numerous wars and conflicts such as both ...

. He subsequently served with the Leicestershire Regiment in

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attaining the rank of a

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. In 1912, Fellowes-Gordon purchased a tea plantation, Roehampton Estate, in

Haputale Haputale (; ) is a town of Badulla District in the Uva Province, Sri Lanka, governed by an Urban Council. The elevation is 1431 m (4695 ft) above the sea level. The area has a rich bio-diversity dense with numerous varieties of flora an ...

, which he managed for twenty years. Upon his father's death in 1925, Fellowes-Gordon inherited his father's estate in

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. On 13 June 1931, he was elected to the

1st State Council of Ceylon The 1st State Council of Ceylon was a meeting of the State Council of Ceylon, with the membership determined by the results of the 1931 state council election held between 13 and 20 June 1931. The parliament met for the first time on 7 July 193 ...

representing

Bandarawela Bandarawela (Sinhala language, Sinhala: බණ්ඩාරවෙල, pronounced ; ) is the second largest town in the Badulla District which is away from Badulla. Bandarawela is away from Colombo and about away from Kandy, the two largest cit ...

. One of only two British elected to the State Council, the other being H. R. Freeman, who represented Anuradhapura. Fellowes-Gordon polled 9,029 votes, defeating the Sinhalese candidate, H. J. Pinto, by 3,299 votes due to his influence with the majority of Tamil Indian voters. He was appointed to the Executive Committee on Agriculture and Lands. Fellowes-Gordon failed in his bid to get re-elected at the next State Council election in 1936, at which Daniel Dias Gunasekera, a Ceylonese businessman, won the seat of Bandarawela. He died in Ceylon in 1940.''England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858–1995''

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fellowes-Gordon, A. 1883 births People from Cupar People educated at Wellington College, Berkshire Royal Leicestershire Regiment officers Members of the 1st State Council of Ceylon 1940 deaths Sri Lankan people of Scottish descent British expatriates in British Ceylon