Sir Pattiyapathirennehelage Albert Fredrick Peries,

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(12 May 1905 – 21 September 1967) was the

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Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka The Speaker of the Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is the presiding officer of the chamber. The Speaker fulfills a number of important functions in relation to the operation of the House, which is based upon the ...

. Serving as Deputy Speaker, Peries first became Speaker after the sudden death of

Francis Molamure Sir Alexander Francis Molamure, (7 February 1888 – 25 January 1951; commonly known as Sir Francis Molamure or A. F. Molamure) was a Ceylonese politician. He became the first Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka, speaker of both the State C ...

, who collapsed and died while presiding over the session. Peries attended

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where he was a keen sportsman. He entered the

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and qualified as a

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and

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. He was elected to the seat of Nattandiya in the 1947 parliamentary election and was re-elected in the 1952, 1960 (March and July), 1965 elections and died in office in 1967. He only lost the 1956 parliamentary election to

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. Peries was appointed a

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in the

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during his first tenure as Speaker. The Sir Albert F. Peiris Sports Complex in

Wennappuwa Wennappuwa is a town in Puttalam District, North Western Province, Sri Lanka. It is north of Negombo. The village of Wennappuwa is mentioned in the Culavamsa as a small farming hamlet. Religious composition in Wennappuwa DS Division accordin ...

is named after him.

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Peries, Pattiyapathirennehelage Albert Fredrick (Sir)Speaker of the Parliament
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