Razik Fareed

The Honourable Sir Razik Fareed OBE, JP, UM
Former Cabinet Minister of Trade
Member of the Sri Lanka Parliament for Colombo
Ceylon's High Commissioner to Pakistan
Personal details
Born	29 December 1893 Colombo
Died	23 August 1984(1984-08-23) (aged 90) Colombo
Nationality	Sri Lankan
Alma mater	Royal College, Colombo
Occupation	Politician, Diplomat
Profession	Landed Proprietor
Religion	Islam
Military service
Allegiance	Ceylon
Service/branch	Ceylon Defence Force
Years of service	(1915-1918)
Rank	Lieutenant
Unit	Colombo Town Guard
Battles/wars	World War I

Sir Razik Fareed, OBE, JP, UM (29 December 1893 - 23 August 1984), was a Ceylonese (Sri Lankan) landed proprietor, politician, diplomat and philanthropist. He was the former Cabinet Minister of Trade, Senator, member of parliament and the state council. He had also served as Ceylon's High Commissioner to Pakistan.

He was educated at the prestigious Royal College Colombo; he was a landed proprietor. In 1915 he joined the Moorish Section of the Colombo Town Guard as a Corporal and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in 1916 having served during the 1915 Riots.^[1]

Moving into politics in 1930 Sir Razik, entered the Colombo Municipal Council where he was a member for 15 years. Thereafter he was voted into the State Council of Ceylon before being appointed to the Senate of Ceylon after independence in 1948. A founding member of the United National Party he retained his seat for Colombo central in the House of Representatives of Ceylon for three times running. In 1960 he was appointed Cabinet Minister in the caretaker government of W. Dahanayake, holding several different portfolios in the cabinet changes that followed.

In 1968 he was sent as Ceylon's High Commissioner to Pakistan. Sir Razik is remembered for the establishment of the Muslim Ladies College with his own land.

Sir Razik is the son of Wapchi Marikar Abdul Rahman, ex-MLC (1868–1933), and paternal grandson of the famous Ceylon Moor building contractor in Colombo, Arasi Marikar Wapchi Marikar (Bass) (1829–1925), who was descended from the Sheiq Fareed family who arrived in Ceylon in 1060 AD.

See also

• Sri Lankan Non Career Diplomats

References

External links

• Great national leader
• Articles on Sir Razik Fareed on Roots

← Members of 2nd Parliament of Ceylon (1952 (1952)-1956) → Speaker: Albert Peries Prime Minister: Dudley Senanayake/John Kotelawala Leader of the Opposition: S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike Central Province (15) Bernard Aluwihare M. D. Banda H. E. P de Mel M. W. R. de Silva Robert Edward Jayatilaka C. A. S. Marikkar E. A. Nugawela T. B. Panabokke H. B. Rambukwella Abeyratne Ratnayaka E. L. Senanayake (Fredrick de Silva) P. H. C. Silva P. P. Sumanatilaka H. B. Tenne U. B. Unamboowe Eastern Province (7) M. E. H. Mohammed Ali M. M. Ebrahim Hadjiar R. B. Kadramer A. M. Merza V. Nalliah N. R. Rajavarothiam S. M. Rasamanickam Northern Province (9) V. Kumaraswamy S. Natesan G. G. Ponnambalam T. Ramalingam C. Sittampalam C. Suntharalingam Alfred Thambiayah C. Vanniasingam V. Veerasingam North Central Province (5) P. B. Bulankulame C. P. de Silva S. H. Mahadiulwewa T. B. Poholiyadde Maithripala Senanayake North Western Province (10) Shirley Corea Ivan Dassanayake Kavisena Herat I. M. R. A. Iriyagolla H. S. Ismail John Kotelawala Albert Peries R. G. Senanayake T. B. Subasinghe D. B. Welagedara Sabaragamuwa Province (10) C. E. Attygalle C. R. Beligammana N. H. Keerthiratne A. E. B. Kiriella E. W. Mathew A. F. Molamure II N. M. Perera Edmund Samarakkody Dudley Senanayake Harold Weragama Southern Province (12) Henry Abeywickrema W. Dahanayake William Neal de Alwis William de Silva Ian de Zoysa C. A. Dharmapala Charles Edirisuriya Montague Jayawickrama D. A. Rajapaksa Victor Ratnayaka Mahanama Samaraweera Doreen Wickremasinghe Uva Province (7) M. B. Bambarapane Leo Fernando (Gladwin Kotelawala) J. C. T. Kotelawala M. S. A. Peiris J. A. Rambukpota (E. B. Embulana) Wilfred A. Ratwatte K. D. Sugathadasa Western Province (20) A. N. D. A. Abeysinghe John Amaratunga S. Dias Bandaranaike S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike P. Andrew Cooray Razik Fareed Kusumasiri Gunawardena R. Gunawardena S. de Silva Jayasinghe D. P. Jayasuriya M. D. H. Jayawardena T. F. Jayawardena J. R. Jayewardene M. C. M. Kaleel C. W. W. Kannangara D. C. W. Kannangara Pieter Keuneman Cyril E. S. Perera Wilmot A. Perera Chandrasiri Somaweera Appointed (6) Sidamparapillai Vythilingam *This list is unfinished.

← Members of 3rd Parliament of Ceylon (1956 (1956)-1959) → Speaker: H. S. Ismail Prime Minister: S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike/W. Dahanayake Leader of the Opposition: N. M. Perera Central Province (15) M. D. Banda M. A. D. Dissanayake K. Hemachandra T. B. Ilangaratne Robert Edward Jayatilaka S. Jinadasa L. S. Jinasena Nimal Karunatilake C. A. S. Marikkar M. B. W. Mediwake R. S. Pelpola Piyasena Tennakoon T. B. Tennekoon P. B. Aloysius Weerakoon J. D. Weerasekera Eastern Province (7) M. E. H. Mohammed Ali S. U. Ethiramanasingham M. S. Kariapper A. H. Macan Markar M. M. Mustapha C. Rajadurai N. R. Rajavarothiam Northern Province (9) V. A. Alegacone A. Amirthalingam S. J. V. Chelvanayakam P. Kandiah V. A. Kandiah V. N. Navaratnam G. G. Ponnambalam C. Suntharalingam C. Vanniasingam North Central Province (5) C. P. de Silva M. S. Dissanayake Sirimewan Godage E. L. B. Hurulle Maithripala Senanayake North Western Province (10) M. A. Adikari Hugh Fernando I. M. R. A. Iriyagolla H. S. Ismail John Kotelawala M. S. B. T. B. D. B. Monnekulame W. J. C. Munasinghe R. G. Senanayake T. B. Subasinghe Mudiyanse Tennakoon Sabaragamuwa Province (10) C. R. Beligammana Kusumasiri Gunawardena Maithripala Herath D. F. Hettiarachchi M. P. Jothipala P. B. G. Kalugalla V. T. G. Karunaratne Jayaweera Kuruppu N. M. Perera Edmund Samarakkody Southern Province (12) Henry Abeywickrema W. Dahanayake William de Silva M. P. de Zoysa C. A. Dharmapala D. S. Goonesekera C. Panini Ilangakoon D. A. Rajapaksa Lakshman Rajapaksa S. W. D. Ratnayake Mahanama Samaraweera S. A. Wickramasinghe Uva Province (7) W. P. G. Ariyadasa K. Don Goonaratne Y. G. Jayasinghe J. C. T. Kotelawala M. S. A. Peiris K. M. P. Rajaratne (Kusuma Rajaratne) W. G. M. Albert Silva Western Province (20) S. Dias Bandaranaike S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike Colvin R. de Silva Stanley de Zoysa Razik Fareed Hector Fernando W. T. W. Meryl Fernando Leslie Goonewardena Vivienne Goonewardena C. de Fonseka Gunawardena D. B. R. Gunawardena Philip Gunawardena Pieter Keuneman Anil Moonesinghe K. A. S. Palansuriya Dayasena Turnolius Pasqual R. G. Senanayake Bernard Soysa M.S. Themis Vimala Wijewardene Appointed (6) M. P. Drahaman R. P. Gaddum Rosslyn Koch J. R. Murray R. S. V. Poulier R. Singleton-Salmon

← Members of 5th Parliament of Ceylon (1960 (1960)–1964) → Speaker: R. S. Pelpola/Hugh Fernando Prime Minister: Sirimavo Bandaranaike Leader of the Opposition: Dudley Senanayake Central Province (23) Bernard Aluwihare (Alick Aluwihare) K. M. K. Banda M. D. Banda L. B. Dassanayake T. William Fernando A. C. S. Hameed T. B. M. Herath T. B. Ilangaratne K. Abdul Jabbar T. B. Jayasundera U. P. Y. Jinadasa Tissa Kapukotuwa Chandrasena Munaweera R. S. Pelpola Shelton Ranaraja A. Ratnayake E. L. Senanayake D. G. Sirisena R. W. Tennekoon T. B. Tennekoon J. D. Weerasekera U. B. Weerasekera Edmund Wijesuriya Eastern Province (11) T. Ahambaram (M. E. H. Mohammed Ali) M. C. Ahamed A. L. Abdul Majeed M. A. Abdul Majeed M. I. M. Abdul Majeed P. Manicavasagam A. H. Macan Markar C. Rajadurai N. R. Rajavarothiam (S. M. Manickarajah) S. M. Rasamanickam Indrasena Soysa Northern Province (13) V. A. Alegacone A. Amirthalingam M. Balasundaram S. J. V. Chelvanayakam V. Dharmalingam Alfred Duraiappah V. A. Kandiah (V. Navaratnam) E. M. V. Naganathan V. N. Navaratnam M. Sivasithamparam T. Sivasithamparam A. Sivasunderam K. Thurairatnam North Central Province (8) C. P. de Silva A. H. de Silva Sirimewan Godage (K. B. Ratnayake) E. L. B. Hurulle S. B. Lenawa R. B. Ratnamalala Maithripala Senanayake P. M. K. Tennakoon North Western Province (16) M. A. Adikari (M. A. J. Wijesinghe) Hugh Fernando S. D. R. Jayaratne L. B. Jayasena M. H. Naina Marikkar M. S. B. T. B. D. B. Monnekulame (Jaya Pathirana) Albert Peries A. U. Romanis Stephen Samarakkody G. W. Samarasinghe A. H. Senanayake R. G. Senanayake Mudiyanse Tennakoon (Kavisena Herath) U.B. Wanninayake Leelananda Weerasinghe D. P. Wickremasinghe Sabaragamuwa Province (16) B. A. P. B. Balasuriya L. de S. A. Gunasekera Premachandra Imbulana P. B. G. Kalugalla Asoka Karunaratne V. T. G. Karunaratne W. A. Karunasena Cyril Mathew Stanley Molligoda N. M. Perera Clifford Ratwatte P. R. Ratnayake Dudley Senanayake Dhanapala Weerasekera Soma Wickremanayake P. B. Wijesundara Southern Province (19) K. H. G. Albert S. W. Dahanayake W. Dahanayake Neal de Alwis Lakshman de Silva M. P. de Zoysa (Don Edwin Thilakeratne) H. W. Dissanayake D. S. Goonasekera Montague Jayawickrema Patrick de Silva Kularatne D. A. Rajapaksa Don Roy Rajapaksa George Rajapaksa Lakshman Rajapaksa Senapala Samarasekera Mahanama Samaraweera Percy Wickremasinghe S. A. Wickramasinghe P. P. Wickremasuriya Uva Province (10) W. P. G. Ariyadasa B. H. Bandara S. B. Ekanayake D. M. Gunasekera J. G. Gunasekera K. M. P. Rajaratne Kusuma Rajaratne Amarananda Ratnayake C. P. J. Seneviratne W. G. M. Albert Silva Western Province (35) Felix R. Dias Bandaranaike S. Dias Bandaranaike I. A. Cader Somaweera Chandrasiri Colvin R. de Silva W. Danister de Silva (Vivienne Goonewardena) Razik Fareed T. Quintin Fernando T. W. Meryl Fernando Cholmondeley Goonewardena Leslie Goonewardena D. B. R. Gunawardena Philip Gunawardena Lakshman Jayakody D. Shelton Jayasinghe Gamini Jayasuriya J. R. Jayewardene M. C. M. Kaleel Pieter Keuneman Wijayapala Mendis Anil Moonesinghe James Peter Obeyesekere III Dayasena Turnolius Pasqual K. D. David Perera Paris Perera R. S. Perera Edmund Samarakkody D. S. Samarasinghe M. P. de Z. Siriwardena Bernard Soysa V. A. Sugathadasa S. K. K. Suriarachchi Stanley Tillekeratne Ratnasiri Wickremanayake Wijayabahu Wijayasinha Appointed (6) Badi-ud-din Mahamud Singleton Salman Savumiamoorthy Thondaman *This list is unfinished.