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=='''මේ අඩවියත් බලන්න'''==▼
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Wijeyeratne එඬ්වින් විජයරත්න]▼
'''Sir Edwin Aloysius Perera Wijeyeratne '''([[8 January]] [[1889]] - [[19 October]] [[1968]]) was a Sri Lankan politician, diplomat, and one of the founding members of [[United National Party]], and served as Cabinet Minister of Home Affairs and Rural Development in the government of [[Don Stephen Senanayake]] and a [[Senate of Ceylon|Senator]].
▲==මේ අඩවියත් බලන්න==
== Early days ==
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Sir Edwin Wijeyeratne of Budenepola [[Walauwa]], [[Kegalle]] was born on 8 January 1889 at Rambukkana. He was the eldest son of Gabrial Perera Wijeyeratne, a respected [[Notary public#England and Wales|notary public]]. The family hailed from the city of [[Kotte]] in Sri Lanka. His mother, Catherina Wickremasinghe Jayasekera Tennekoon, was the daughter of Jayasekera Tennekoon, a wealthy notary from the Four Korales in Kegalle. The family had come to Kegalle early in the 16th century, fleeing the Portuguese, and continued to intermarry with the Walauwes of Kotte, Madapatha and Matara.
Wijeyeratne and was first educated at the village school. When nine years old, he went to Handessa Village School in [[Gampola]], where he stayed at the home of his future wife, Leela Pethiyagoda. He was there for two years, after which he studied at St. Mary’s College, Kegalle before completing his secondary education at [[St Joseph's College, Colombo]] where he passed the Cambridge Senior exam with Honours. He won 15 prizes at the last school prize giving he attended.<ref name="ref2">[http://www.dailynews.lk/2007/10/20/fea03.asp An illustrious son of Sabaragamuwa]</ref>
== Family life ==
Wijeyeratne married Leela Pethiyagoda of Meewaladeniya Walauwa, Gampola and had three sons and a daughter. The eldest, Tissa Wijeyeratne was a Barrister at Law and served as the Additional Secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Defence, as Sri Lankan Ambassador to [[France]] and to [[Switzerland]], and as Senior Advisor (Foreign Affairs) to Prime Minister [[Sirimavo Bandaranaike]]. Wijeyeratne's second son, Dr [[Nissanka Wijeyeratne]], was former Cabinet Minister of Education, Higher Education and Justice and [[Diyawadana Nilame]] (Chief lay Custodian) of [[Sri Dalada Maligawa]]. He had also been Sri Lankan Ambassador to the Russian Federation and former member of the governing body of [[UNESCO]]. The youngest son, Cuda Wijeyeratne is a physician.
== Professional career ==
After leaving school he became a teacher at Lorenz Tutory while working as a journalist. Wijeyeratne became a [[lawyer]] in 1929, and was quickly able to build up a large practice; he was an expert in Civil and Kandyan Law and in Buddhist Ecclesiastical Law. He entered the State Council in 1931 from Kegalle, where he served until 1936. He did not stand for re-election at the State Council in 1936, however he remained at the Bar from 1936 to 1947.
== Political career ==
Wijeyeratne was one of the hundreds of Ceylonese arrested by the [[United Kingdom|British]] colonial government during the Riots of 1915. Others who where faced imprisonment without charges included prominent figures of the independence movement FR Senanayake, DC Senanayake, DS Senanayake, Baron Jayatilaka, Dr CA Hewavitarne, WA de Silva, Arthur V Dias, John Silva, Piyadasa Sirisena and AE Goonesinghe.
Wijeyeratne then became political secretary to Sir [[Ponnambalam Ramanathan]], and was one of the co-founders of a political group, the Young Lanka League. When the Ceylon National Congress was founded by Sir P Arunachalam and Sir [[James Peiris]], Wijeyeratne was one of their colleagues and a co-founder.
On one occasion, when the Lord Soulbury commissioners were on the way to Kandy, DS Senanayake had stationed Wijeyeratne bare bodied, in a paddy field in Kegalle. There, he was introduced to the commissioners as a typical Sinhala farmer and who spoke in English to the commissioners and impressed on them the need for [[Ceylon]] to obtain self-government.<!-- <ref name"ref2">[http://www.dailynews.lk/2007/10/20/fea03.asp An illustrious son of Sabaragamuwa]</ref> -->
A special invitation was sent to Ceylon by [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] and the Indian Congress to visit India for a discussion regarding the independence of Ceylon. Wijeyeratne himself, DS Senanayake, George E De Silva, JR Jayawardene, GCS De Corea and HW Amarasuriya were among the delegates.
Wijeyeratne was appointed President of the Ceylon National Congress in 21 December 1940. His Joint Secretaries were Dudley Senanayake and JR Jayawardene. During this period he was chosen to lead the Ceylon National Congress delegation to London.
In 1947 Wijeyeratne was appointed to the Senate which was a non elected upper house of parliament. There he served as acting leader. He succeeded [[Sir]] [[Oliver Goonetilleke]] as Cabinet Minister of Home Affairs and Rural Development in D. S. Senanayake's government in July 1948.
Wijeyeratne was a member of the Commission on the Death Penalty which first recommended the abolishing the death penalty in 1958.
=== National Anthem of Sri Lanka ===
Wijeyeratne while minister of Home Affairs and Rural Development, was appointed chairman of the select committee to select a National Anthem. The committee selected [[Namo, Namo, Matha]] as the national anthem of Sri Lanka.<!-- <ref name"ref2">[http://www.dailynews.lk/2007/10/20/fea03.asp An illustrious son of Sabaragamuwa]</ref> -->
== Diplomatic role ==
Wijeyeratne was appointed Ceylon [[High Commissioner]] to Britain in 1951. In 1953, he was made a [[Knights Bachelor]] by [[Queen Elizabeth II]] at [[Buckingham palace]]. During this period, Wijeyeratne was involved in strengthening diplomatic relations between Britain and Sri Lanka. Wijeyeratne and his wife were visited at their residence in London on three occasions by [[Queen Elizabeth II]] and [[Prince Philip]]. Wijeyeratne was appointed Ceylon High Commissioner to [[India]] in 1954. During this period he represented Ceylon at the coronation of the [[King of Nepal]].
== See also ==
*[[List of political families|Political Families of The World]]
*[[Sri Lanka Matha]]
*[[Nissanka Wijeyeratne]]
*[[Neranjan Wijeyeratne]]
*[[Sri Lankan Non Career Diplomats]]
==References==
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*[http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lkawgw/gen3147.html The Wijeyeratne Ancestry]
*'''J.R. Jayewardene of Sri Lanka''': a political biography by De Silva, K. M., & Wriggins, W. H. 1988, University of Hawaii Press ISBN 0824811836'''
*'''The Break-up of Sri Lanka: the Sinhalese-Tamil conflict''' - Google Books Resultby Alfred Jeyaratnam Wilson - 1988 - History - 256 pages books.google.lk/books ISBN 1850650330... Chelvanayakam showed this writer a letter from one of Senanayake's close political collaborators, Edwin Aloysius Perera Wijeyeratne.
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