Richard Gotabhaya Senanayake

Richard Gotabhaya Senanayake (November 4, 1911 – December 22, 1970) (popularly known as R.G. Senanayake) was a Sri Lankan politician. He was Cabinet Minister of Trade and Commerce during the period 1952-56 and 1956-60. He was elected a Member of Parliament from Dambadeniya in 1952 and in 1956 from Kelaniya, thus holding concurrent seats from two constituencies, while he retained his seat from Dambadeniya in 1960 and 1965. He was the eldest son of the freedom fighter Fredrick Richard Senanayake and was educated at the Royal College, Colombo and at Downing College, Cambridge and had become a Barrister.^[1]

In 2013, Gregory's Road in Colombo was renamed R G Senanayake Mawatha in his memory.^[2]

See also

• List of political families in Sri Lanka

References

External links

• The Senanayake Ancestry
• Right Royal rally of old Royalists in the Sri Lanka Parliament
• Mod UNP prefers pink champagne to a green revolution!
• Senanayakes and Presidential election 2005

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