Clodagh Jayasuriya

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Clodagh Jayasuriya, MBE, (née Jayewardene) was a Ceylonese politician and the first female to be elected to the Senate of Ceylon.

Clodagh Jayewardene was the only child of John Adrian St. Valentine Jayewardene (1877-1927), a lawyer and Supreme Court judge and Ethel Charlotte Irene née Dissanayake. [1]

In 1945 she married Bernard Jayasuriya, a member of the State Council of Ceylon between February 1943 and 1947, [2] who contested the seat of Avissawella at the 1st parliamentary election held in late 1947. He was unsuccessful in his attempt to get elected losing to Philip Gunawardena by almost 12,000 votes. [3]

Following Bernard's death Coldagh entered local politics becoming the chair of the Hanwella Peruwa Village Council. [2] [4] At the 2nd parliamentary election in 1952, she ran in the Avissawella electorate as the United National Party candidate, where she narrowly lost to Gunawardena's wife, Kusumasiri by 929 votes. [5]

Jayasuriya was elected to the Senate of Ceylon in October 1953 and resigned her seat in 1956. [6] In January 1956 she was awarded a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE). [7] Jayasuriya ran again in the subsequent 1956 parliamentary elections for Avisssawella, where she lost to Philip Gunawardena by 22,252 votes. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ "Jayewardene, Don Adrian Wijesinghe (Tombi Mudaliyar) - Family #3002". Rootsweb . Retrieved 22 August 2017.
  2. 1 2 Wijesekera, Chitra (1995). Women in Our Legislature. Sarvodaya Vishva Lekha. pp. 241–242. ISBN   9789559579700.
  3. ↑ "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1947" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
  4. ↑ Kiribamune, Sirima (1999). Women and Politics in Sri Lanka: A Comparative Perspective. International Centre for Ethnic Studies. p. 52. ISBN   9789555800433.
  5. ↑ "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1952" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 21 June 2017.
  6. ↑ "Parliamentary Debates". 24. Parliament of Ceylon. 1956: 12.
  7. ↑ Ceylon list: "No. 40672". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 1955. pp. 47–48.
  8. ↑ "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1956" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 21 June 2017.


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