John Kotelawala

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title: John Kotelawala
text: General Sir John Lionel Kotelawala 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. He was educated at Royal College, Colombo, and Christ's College, Cambridge, before returning to become a planter and run the family estates and mines. Kotelawala joined the Ceylon Defense Force as an voluntee
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description: 3rd Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
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date created: 2005-12-29T01:04:02Z
date modified: 2024-09-09T05:03:12Z
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