E. B. Wikramanayake

Eric Bird Wikramanayake, QC was a Ceylonese statesman and lawyer. He was the Minister of Justice in the cabinet of Prime Minister Sir John Kotelawala and a member of the Senate of Ceylon.[1] A successful lawyer[2] he was appointed a Queen's Counsel and had been educated at S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia. He was the father of Elanga Wikramanayake and grandfather of Arittha R Wikramanayake, Eric Wikramanayake and Athula Wikramanayake. [3] Wikramanayake was founder President of the Wildlife Protection Society of Sri Lanka[4] and served on the Board of Governors of S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia.

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