Education
Downing College; Royal College, Colombo.
Downing College; Royal College, Colombo.
Doctorate.S. Senanayake would go on to lead Sri Lanka"s independence movement, becoming the first Prime Minister of independent Sri Lanka in 1947. Born in the village of Botale, in the Hapitigam Korale to Mudaliyar Don Spater Senanayake and Dona Catherina Elizabeth Perera Gunasekera Senanayake. Educated at South. Thomas" College, Mutwal, Royal College, Colombo and Downing College, Cambridge, he became a Barrister at the Lincoln’s Inn, London in 1905.
A leading member of the Sri Lankan independence movement, he was a member of the Legislative Council of Ceylon.