James Herwald Ramsbotham, 2nd Viscount Soulbury (21 March 1915 – 12 December 2004) was eldest son of Hon. Herwald Ramsbotham, 1st Viscount Soulbury, British Conservative politician.
Contents |
At the outbreak of World War II instead of joining regiment to serve in units overseas, he signed up with the REME, rapidly mastering the professional techniques, so that he could continue his work with groups in England.
He lived in Ceylon(Sri Lanka) from the late 1950s, where his father had been Governor-General, as a Hindu yogi under the name of Santhaswami. Although he ran the at the Sivathondan Nilayam at Chenkalady in Batticaloa he also used to spend a good deal of his time amongst the Veddas, aboriginal tribal peoples. He would go off for long periods of time to their strongholds deep in the jungles and forrests. Inevitably, one newspaper or another would "scoop" the story of his death. He would subsequently emerge again from one of these forays, wondering what all the fuss was about.[1] Then he moved to Kaithadi Ashram at Jaffna, where he lived until 1986.