
John Kotelawala
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 44 years ago |
Date of birth | April 4,1897 |
Zodiac sign | Aries |
Born | British Ceylon |
Date of died | October 2,1980 |
Died | Colombo |
Sri Lanka | |
Children | Lakshmi Kotelawala |
Parents | Alice Elizabeth Kotelawala |
John Kotelawala Sr | |
Nationality | Sri Lankan |
Siblings | Justin Kotalawela |
Education | Royal College |
University of Cambridge | |
Christ's College Cambridge | |
Party | United National Party |
Previous position | Prime Minister of Ceylon (1953–1956) |
Nephew | Lalith Kotelawala |
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ID | 569581 |
John Kotelawala Life story
General Sir John Lionel Kotelawala CH KBE KStJ PC was a Sri Lankan statesman, who served as the 3rd Prime Minister of Ceylon from 1953 to 1956. Born to a wealthy landholding and mining family, Kotelawala had a difficult childhood with the suicide of his father and the financial difficulties that followed.