V. S. de S. Wikramanayake

Vincent Stuart de Silva Wikramanayake CBE, JPUM, (18 December 1876 – 1953) was a Ceylonese lawyer and politician.^[1]^[2]^[3] He served as a member of the Legislative Council (1924–1931) and State Council of Ceylon (1931–1935).

Wikramanayake was the youngest son of Charles Edward Wikramanayake (1843–1936) and Emilia Beth Sooriarachchi née Amarasekara.

At the fourth Legislative Council election held on 27 September 1924 he was elected as an unofficial member of the Legislative Council of Ceylon, representing the Southern Province Eastern Division. He defeated G. K. W. Perera, a barrister from Colombo. Perera won the initial vote but demanded a recount as he believed he had secured a greater majority of votes only to lose to Wikramanayake by 17 votes.^[4]

At the first State Council election in 1931, the election for Hambantota's seat was held on 13 June 1931 with only two candidates. Wikramanayake won with 15,384 votes defeating retired Mudaliyar H. Jayawardene, who received 4,467 votes, by a 10,917 vote majority.^[4]

At the second State Council election held in 1936 he was defeated by Don Mathew Rajapaksa, who was one of Wikramanayake's clerks.^[4] He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1950 Birthday Honours.

Wikramanayake married Cecilia née de Saram, daughter of the acting Gate Mudaliyar of Galle, Peter de Saram, with whom he had four children.^[5]

References

^ "Hon. Wickramanayake, Vincent Stuart de Silva, M.P." Directory of Past Members. Parliament of Sri Lanka. Archived from the original on 15 February 2023. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
^ The Ceylon Blue Book. Government Printer, South Africa. 1935. p. 133.
^ Wijesinghe, Sam (26 September 1999). "DP: A man who was one with the people". Sunday Times. Archived from the original on 8 May 2019. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
^ ^a ^b ^c Wijesinghe, Sam (25 December 2005). "People and State Power". The Sunday Observer. Archived from the original on 28 March 2019. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
^ Roberts, Nora (1993). Galle as Quiet as Asleep. p. 339. ISBN 9789559557906.

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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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