Elina Jayewardene (''

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'' Bandara Rupasinghe; 15 December 1913 – 17 November 2007) was a Sri Lankan heiress and social worker, who was the wife of the second

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J. R. Jayewardene Junius Richard Jayewardene (; ; 17 September 1906 – 1 November 1996), commonly referred to by his initials JR, was a Sri Lankan lawyer, public official and statesman who served as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 1977 to 1978 and as the secon ...

and was the

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from 1978 to 1988. Elina Jayewardene was known for her social work; she was the founder of the Seva Vanitha Movement. She was born Elina Bandara Rupasinghe, to Gilbert Leonard Rupasinghe, a

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who was a successful businessman, and his wife Nancy Margaret Suriyabandara. Educated at home, she married

, who was an

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, on 28 February 1935. Ravindra "Ravi" Vimal Jayewardene, their only child, was born soon after. Elina and her husband settled at Jayewardene's parents house Vaijantha, and later moved to their own house

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in 1938, where they remained the rest of their lives, when not holidaying at Pradeep Jayewardene House in Mirissa. Elina Jayewardene died on 17 November 2007 at the age of 93.Elina Jayewardene passes away
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