Forester Augustus Obeyesekere

Hon. Forester Augustus Obeyesekere MSC

2nd Speaker of the State Council
In office 11 December 1934 – 7 December 1935
Preceded by	Alfred Francis Molamure
Succeeded by	Waithilingam Duraiswamy

Personal details
Nationality	Ceylonese (Sri Lankan)
Residence(s)	Balcombe House, Cotta road
Alma mater	Royal College, Colombo

Forester Augustus Obeyesekere (7 August 1880 – 26 December 1961) was a prominent colonial era legislator from Ceylon. He was the Speaker of the State Council of Ceylon and a member of the Legislative Council of Ceylon.^[1]^[2]

Born to Sir Solomon Christoffel Obeyesekere^[3] a member of the Legislative Council, F A Obeysekera was educated at Royal College, Colombo, where he captained the cricket team at the Royal-Thomian and played for the Singhalese Sports Club.^[4]^[5] He later studied at Cambridge University.^[6]

He was elected an unofficial member from the Southern Province Central (Matara) to the Legislative Council in the 1924 Legislative Council election and retained his seat till the Legislative Council was dissolved and replaced by the State Council in the 1931 State Council election, when he was elected as deputy speaker. In 1934, he became Speaker when Sir Francis Molamure stepped down for personal reasons.^[7]

He married Amy Isabel Sykes and they had two children, Boykin and Ezlynne. Ezlynne married Ralph Deraniyagala, MBE who became the Clerk of Parliament.

References

^ S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike- trail-blazing leader
^ Anil Obeysekera
^ SCHARFF - Family #1006
^ "MY SCHOOL DAY IMPRESSIONS, By Frank Ondatjie". Archived from the original on 2008-05-17. Retrieved 2009-08-05.
^ The Royal Thomian derby by Renu Manamendra
^ Wisden 1963, p. 1035.
^ "Speakers". parliament.lk. Parliament of Sri Lanka. Retrieved 7 January 2022.

v t e Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka
Molamure Obeyesekere Duraiswamy Molamure Peries Ismail Subasinghe Pelpola Fernando Peries Corea Tillekeratne de Alwis Markar Senanayake Mohamed Ratnayake Bandaranaike Perera Lokubandara Rajapaksa Jayasuriya Abeywardena Ranwala

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Members of the 1924 Legislative Council of Ceylon (1924–1931) →

President: Hugh Clifford (1924–27); Murchison Fletcher (1927–28); Herbert Stanley (1928–31); Bernard Henry Bourdillon (1931); Graeme Thomson (1931)
Vice President: James Peiris (1924–1930); Don Baron Jayatilaka (1930–31)

Ex offico Members (5)

General Officer Commanding the Troops	Harold Higginson
Colonial Secretary	Cecil Clementi Murchison Fletcher Edward Bruce Alexander
Attorney General	Lancelot Elphinstone
Controller of Revenue	Edward Bruce Alexander Walter Ernest Wait
Colonial Treasurer	Wilfrid Wentworth Woods

Nominated Members (10)

Official Members (7)	Frank Arthur Stockdale Lachlan Macrae John Strachan James Frederick Edmund Bridger Francis Graeme Tyrrell Thomas Reid Maas Thajoon Akbar
Unofficial Members (3)	Hermann Albert Loos Gerard Wijeyekoon Kadiravalepillai Balasingham

Elected Members (34)

Territorial (24)

Colombo Town (North) (1)	Victor Corea
Colombo Town (South) (1)	James Peiris
Colombo District (1)	Don Baron Jayatilaka
Negombo District (1)	D. S. Senanayake
Kalutara Revenue District (1)	E. W. Perera
Western Province (Ceylon Tamil) (1)	Arunachalam Mahadeva
Central Province (Urban) (1)	Gerard Wijeyekoon
Central Province (Rural) (1)	George E. de Silva
Northern Province (Northern) (1)	Ponnambalam Ramanathan
Northern Province (Southern) (1)	A. Canagaratnam
Northern Province (Eastern) (1)	T. M. Sabaratnam (from 19 Feb. 1925)
Northern Province (Western) (1)	Waithilingam Duraiswamy
Northern Province (Central) (1)	Suppiramaniam Rajaratnam
Southern Province (Eastern) (1)	V. S. de S. Wikramanayake
Southern Province (Central) (1)	Forester Augustus Obeyesekere
Southern Province (Western) (1)	C. W. W. Kannangara
Trincomalee Revenue District (1)	M. M. Subramaniam
Batticaloa Revenue District (1)	E. R. Tambimuttu
North Western Province (Western Division) (1)	C. H. Z. Fernando
North Western Province (Eastern Division) (1)	Godfrey Edward Madawala
North Central Province (1)	H. R. Freeman
Province of Uva (1)	Henry Kotelawala
Kegalla Revenue District (1)	Alexander Francis Molamure
Ratnapura Revenue District (1)	Arthur Hamilton Ekneligoda Molamure

Communal (10)

European (Urban) (1)	Unfinished
European (Rural) (1)	Unfinished
Commercial (1)	Unfinished
Burgher (2)	George Alfred Henry Wille Nathaniel John Martin
Muhammadan (3)	Mohamed Macan Markar N. H. M. Abdul Cader T. B. Jayah
Indian (2)	I. X. Pereira S. R. Muhammad Sultan K. Natesa Iyer (from 11 Dec. 1925)
Unknown	Thomas Yates Wright Edwin James Hayward William Loring Kindersley Thomas Southorn (until 1925) George Thornton Alfred Henry Frank Clarke (from 26 Nov. 1924) W. A. de Silva (from 19 Feb. 1925) Punchi Banda Rambukwelle (from 19 Feb. 1925) Thomas Lister Villiers (from 19 Nov. 1925) Neill Graeme Campbell (from Mar. 1926)

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Members of the 1st State Council of Ceylon (1931–1935) →

Speaker: A. F. Molamure (1931–34); F. A. Obeysekera (1934–35)
Chief Secretary: Bernard Henry Bourdillon (1931-1935)

Central Province (7)

Eastern Province (2)

Northern Province (4)

North Central Province (1)

H. R. Freeman

North Western Province (5)

Sabaragamuwa Province (6)

Southern Province (7)

Uva Province (4)

Western Province (13)

Appointed (8)

Burgher	Stewart Schneider V. R. S. Schokman
European	Maurice John Cary Thomas Lister Villiers D. C. Stewart-Smith G. K. Stewart Evelyn Charles Villiers
Indian Tamil	I. X. Pereira
Muslim	M. K. Saldin

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