E. A. Nugawela

The Honourable Major E. A. Nugawela
E. A. Nugawela in the first Cabinet of Ministers of Ceylon

Minister of Education and Health
Member of the Sri Lankan Parliament for Kadugannawa
In office 1947–1958
Personal details
Nationality	Ceylonese
Political party	United National Party
Alma mater	Royal College, Colombo

Major E. A. Nugawela, CLI was a Sri Lankan politician. He was the first Cabinet Minister of Education in independent Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) (1947–1954), later Cabinet Minister of Health (1954–1956), a Member of Parliament & State Council.^[1] He is noted for the educational reforms and expansion of the number of state schools during his tenure, continuing the work started by Dr C.W.W. Kannangara.^[2] Educated at Royal College, Colombo, he had served as a reservist officer in the Ceylon Light Infantry.

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Education ministers of Sri Lanka

Nugawela Banda Dahanayake Aluwihare Mahmud Kalugalla Iriyagolla Mahmud Wijeyeratne Wickremasinghe Lokubandara Pathirana Kodituwakku Gunawardane Kariyawasam

Health Ministers of Sri Lanka

Panabokke de Silva Bandaranaike Senanayake Nugawela Wijewardene Jayasuriya Peiris Jayasuriya Mahmud Jayawardena Rajapaksa Obeyesekere Atapattu Ranasinghe Herath Fowzie Seneviratne Dayaratna de Silva Sirisena Attanayake Senaratne

// Members of the 1st Parliament of Ceylon (1947 (1947)-1952) →

Speaker: Alexander Francis Molamure/Albert Peries Prime Minister: D. S. Senanayake/Dudley Senanayake Leader of the Opposition: N. M. Perera

Central Province (15)	M. D. Banda George E. de Silva T. B. Ilangaratne, Tamara Kumari Ilangaratne Senerat Gunewardene R. S. Pelpola K. Kumaravelu G. R. Motha A. Aziz V. T. Nanayakkara E. A. Nugawela Tikiri Bandara Panabokke II H. R. U. Premachandra K. Rajalingam H. B. Rambukwella Abeyratne Ratnayaka H. B. Tenne Savumiamoorthy Thondaman C. V. Velupillai

Eastern Province (7)	A. R. A. M. Abubucker S. U. Ethirmanasingham M. M. Ebrahim Hadjiar M. S. Kariapper Ahamed Lebbe Sinne Lebbe V. Nalliah S. Sivapalan

Northern Province (9)	S. J. V. Chelvanayakam K. Kanagaratnam V. Kumaraswamy G. G. Ponnambalam T. Ramalingam C. Sittampalam C. Suntharalingam Alfred Thambiayah C. Vanniasingam

North Central Province (5)	P. L. Bauddhasara P. B. Bulankulame S. H. Mahadiulwewa T. B. Poholiyadde Maithripala Senanayake

North Western Province (10)	Ivan Dassanayake J. J. Fernando Kavisena Herat I. M. R. A. Iriyagolla Hameed Hussain Sheikh Ismail John Kotelawala Albert Peries Richard Gotabhaya Senanayake Herbert Sri Nissanka Tikiri Banda Subasinghe

Sabaragamuwa Province (10)	C. E. Attygalle D. F. Hettiarachchi N. H. Keerthiratne E. W. Mathew Alexander Francis Molamure Jayaweera Kuruppu N. M. Perera Reggie Perera Harris Leuke Ratwatte Dudley Senanayake Florence Senanayake

Southern Province (12)	H. D. Abeygoonawardena Simon Abeywickrema H. W. Amarasuriya Wijeyananda Dahanayake William de Silva Arthur de Zoysa D. S. Goonesekera Montague Jayawickrama P. Kumarasiri D. A. Rajapaksa Lakshman Rajapaksa Victor Rathnayake W. Wickremasinghe Walwin de Silva

Uva Province (7)	Leo Fernando J. C. T. Kotelawala K. V. Nadarajah D. Ramanujam J. A. Rambukpota S. M. Subbaiah K. D. Sugathadasa

Western Province (20)	S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike R. A. de Mel T. F. Jayawardena Colvin R. de Silva George R. de Silva A. Ekanayake Gunasinha Cholomondeley Gunawardena Philip Gunawardena Kusumasiri Gunawardena R. Gunawardena Tuan Burhanudeen Jayah M. C. M. Kaleel A. P. Jayasuriya D. P. Jayasuriya J. R. Jayewardene D. D. Karunaratne P. P. Jayawardene Pieter Keuneman Wilmot A. Perera Henry Peiris D. S. Senanayake Sam A. Silva H. de Z. Siriwardena Chandrasiri Somaweera

Appointed (6)	E. F. N. Gratien F. H. Griffith J. A. Martenze J. J. W. Oldfield S. A. Pakeman G. R. Whitby

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