Cyril Esmond Lucien Wickremesinghe (29 May 1920 – 29 September 1985) was a Ceylonese media proprietor, lawyer and politician. He also played key role in...
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Born on 24 March 1949 in Colombo, Wickremesinghe was the second son of Esmond Wickremesinghe and Nalini Wickremesinghe née Wijewardena. His father was a...
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Lanka Ranil Wickremesinghe. He was born on 20 December 1947 in Colombo as the eldest of the family. His parents were Esmond Wickremesinghe and Nalini Wickremesinghe...
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Ranil Wickremesinghe, the former Prime Minister and incumbent President of Sri Lanka. It was built by Wickremesinghe's father, press baron Esmond Wickremesinghe...
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Bulathsinhala Shakun Bulathsinhala (2002–) Nalini Wijewardene + Esmond Wickremesinghe Shan Wickremasinghe (1947–), Founder of Sri Lankan television Ranil...
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), Member of Parliament, Cabinet Minister Nalini Wijewardene + Esmond Wickremesinghe Ranil Wickremasinghe (1949– ), 9th President of Sri Lanka, Prime...
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Diyatalawa as the family retreat. His daughters Nalini married Esmond Wickremesinghe, while Rani married George Gomes and Kusuma married Lal Gooneratne...
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major critic, the Lake House Group led by the press baron Esmond Wickremesinghe. Wickremesinghe responded with a campaign to remove her from office to safeguard...
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needed] This is even true of the political right; for example, Esmond Wickremesinghe (the father of Ranil Wickremasinghe) was a leading member of the...
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banned for undermining the war effort. This was at a time when even Esmond Wickremesinghe was in the underground. He assisted Colvin R de Silva and N.M. Perera...
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Newspapers of Ceylon), Esmond Wickremesinghe, the father of Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. Ranil Wickremesinghe, during his neo-liberal...
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Abhayavardhana was recruited to the Lanka Sama Samaja Party in 1940 by Esmond Wickremesinghe (later to be father of Ranil Wickremasinghe). He became part of...
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assassination attempt on 23 March 1965 when a bomb was thrown into Esmond Wickremesinghe's house moments after Senanayake had left the premises while negotiations...
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Royal College, Colombo. A few years later, the former LSSP member Esmond Wickremesinghe, by then a Cold War conservative, recruited Siriwardena as a journalist...
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married his wife Ruby, in 1943. The bestman at the wedding was Esmond Wickremesinghe who would later become a press baron. Then a surgeon, still a surgeon...
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Lakshman Wickremasinghe (category Wickremesinghe family)
One of his brothers was the press baron, Esmond Wickramasinghe. One of his nephews was Ranil Wickremesinghe who would later become the President of Sri...
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on Pharmaceuticals in Sri Lanka of which the authors were Dr S. A. Wickremesinghe and Seneka Bibile. The Congress of Samasamaja Youth Leagues and the...
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