Background
His father Hakeem Alia Marikkar Mohomed Marikkar belonged to a family of physicians, whose ancestors too were physicians. He was born in Beruwala on May 12, 1917.
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Bakeer Markar
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Educated at Zahira College, Colombo, entered Colombo Law College in 1940 and graduated in 1950.
Career
He was the Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka and Governor of the Southern Province. Bakeer Markar"s ancestry is traced to Sheik Jamaluddeen-First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Maghdoomi, an Arab settler who settled down in the sea board town of Beruwala. With the on set of World World War II, he took up duties in Civil Defence Services in 1942 and was sent for civil defense training in India.
After the war he had a lucrative legal practice and was elected President of the Kalutara District Branch of the Bar Association of Ceylon.
He was subsequently elected as the Chairman of the Council. He served as acting as the Head of State while the President and Prime Minister was out of the country.
Achievements
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He was the founder President of the Iraq-Sri Lanka Friendship Association and remained in this position until his demise. In the early 1980s, when the plane carrying the Indonesian Haj Pilgrims on return journey crashed in Sri Lanka it was Deshamanya Bakeer Markar, then as Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka, rushed to the scene of the incident and took personal interest to have the bodies of the pilgrims dispatched to Indonesia.
Membership
He started his political career when he was elected member of the Beruwala Urban Council. He was the first Member of Parliament to represent Beruwala from March 1960 to April 1960, the Member of Parliament for Beruwala from April 1965 to March 1970, the Deputy Speaker of the Parliament from August 4, 1977 to September 7, 1978, the Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka from September 21, 1978 to August 30, 1983, the Cabinet Minister Without Portfolio from 1983 to 1988 and the Governor of the Southern Province of Sri Lanka from June 13, 1988 to December 1993.
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Sri Lanka