Sir Richard Plasket or Plaskett, (1782–1847) was the fifth

Civil Auditor General The auditor general of Sri Lanka ( Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා විගණකාධිපති ''Śrī Laṃkā viganakādhipathi''; Tamil: இலங்கை கணக்காய்வாளர் தலைமை) is appointed by t ...

for

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. He was appointed on 14 June 1809, succeeding

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, and held the office until 30 January 1811, when he was succeeded by

Anthony Bertolacci Anthony Bertolacci (1776–1833) was the sixth Civil Auditor General of British Ceylon. A Corsican, he left Corsica with his British employers when they evacuated the island in 1796 after a short military occupation. Around 1799 he followed his p ...

. He left Ceylon in 1814 after 12 years service there and moved to Malta to serve as Chief Secretary under his previous

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, Sir Thomas Maitland, during which time he was knighted KCMG. In 1824, he was appointed Colonial Secretary of the

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, where he was heavily involved in establishing the Royal Observatory. He was finally Civil Commissioner in

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before his retirement in 1844. He died in 1847.

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