Education
Born to James Alfred Jayewardene, a Proctor who was the Deputy Coroner of Colombo, Jayewardene was educated at the Royal College, Colombo.
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Theodore Jayewardene
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His bothers were Hector Alfred Jayewardene, Justice Eugene Wilfred Jayewardene, KC and Justice John Adrian Saint Valentine Jayewardene. After becoming an engineer, he joined the Public Works Department in 1895 as an assistant engineer and in 1900 became a fully qualified Civil Engineer. He joined the Ceylon Light Infantry, a reservist regiment of the Ceylon Defence Force, in 1889 as a private.
However he was later commissioned and quickly climbed though the ranks becoming a Major in 1908.
In 1921 he was appointed as the Military Intelligence Officer of the Ceylon Defence Force. He was elected to the State Council of Ceylon in 1933 from the Balangoda seat and held it till 1936.
One of Colombo primary roads Colonel T. G. Jayewardene Mawatha has been named in his honor.
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A member of the State Council of Ceylon, he was the first Ceylonese commanding officer of the Ceylon Light Infantry.
