Monty Gopallawa

Monty Gopallawa (born 16 January 1941) was a Sri Lankan politician.^[1] Monty was the son of William Gopallawa who served as Governor-General of Ceylon and President of Sri Lanka. Monty was a member of Sri Lanka's parliament. He served as deputy minister of labour from 1994 to 1997, deputy minister of public works from 1997 to 2000, and as cabinet minister of cultural affairs from 2000 to 2001. He lost the 2001 General Election. In 2002 he became the governor of Central Province, Sri Lanka and served in that position until his death. He died at a hospital in Colombo, Sri Lanka's capital, during treatment for an illness.

See also

• List of political families in Sri Lanka
• The Gopallawa Ancestry

References

External links

• Methek Kathawa Divaina

v t e ← Members of 7th Parliament of Ceylon (1970 (1970)–1972) → Speaker: Stanley Tillekeratne Prime Minister: Sirimavo Bandaranaike Leader of the Opposition: Junius Richard Jayewardene Veerasingham Anandasangaree Arunasalam Thangathurai Felix Dias Bandaranaike Sirimavo Bandaranaike S. J. V. Chelvanayakam Colvin R. de Silva Gamini Dissanayake Monty Gopallawa Abdul Cader Shahul Hameed T. B. Ilangaratne D. M. Jayaratne Junius Richard Jayewardene P.B.G. Kalugalla Sivasubramaniam Kathiravelupillai Pieter Keuneman Vasudeva Nanayakkara V. N. Navaratnam M. Joseph Michael Perera Ranasinghe Premadasa Mahinda Rajapaksa Dudley Senanayake Maithripala Senanayake Rukman Senanayake Kathiripillai Thurairatnam Stanley Tillekeratne Richard Udugama Ratnasiri Wickremanayake *This list is unfinished.