N. E. Weerasooriya
N. E. Weerasooriya or Weerasooria QC (died 1974) was an eminent Sri Lankan lawyer.[1]
Educated at Royal College Colombo, where he edited the College Magazine and at the Ceylon Law College. He gained prominence as a lawyer being appointed as a Queen's Counsel and as a historian authoring several books on Sri Lanka.[2]
In the 1953 he was appointed to chair the Commission of Broadcasting[3] and in the early 1960s he was the founding Chairmen of the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation in the 1960s.[4]
He used the pen-name "Fijjik".
Selected publications[]
- Tales of Old Ceylon (1963) (4 vols.)
- Modern Ceylon Through the Looking Glass (1965)
- Ceylon and her People
- Ran Kumari - A Golden Princess of the Kandyan Hills
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Categories:
- Sinhalese lawyers
- Alumni of Royal College, Colombo
- Alumni of Sri Lanka Law College
- Ceylonese Queen's Counsel
- Historians of Sri Lanka
- Sinhalese writers
- 1974 deaths