Arthur Ranasinghe

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Sir Arthur Ranasinha
CBE, CCS
Black and white photograph of Ranasinghe, as first Ceylonese ambassador to Israel, sat in a chair, with Yitzhak Ben-Zvi to his left on a sofa.
Ranasinghe (left) meeting Yitzhak Ben-Zvi
in 1959
Secretary to the Treasury
Personal details
Born(1898-06-24)24 June 1898
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Died19 June 1976(1976-06-19) (aged 77)
Colombo, Sri Lanka

Sir Arthur Godwin Ranasinha,

Central Bank of Ceylon before apportionment as a Cabinet Minister and Senator. He had also served as Ceylon's Ambassador to Italy.[2]

Education

Ranasinghe was educated at S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He was a Ceylon University Scholar in 1917 and gained Bachelor of Arts degree in history from the University of London.[3]

Civil service

He was appointed to the

Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Finance, Secretary to the Treasury and Secretary to the Cabinet, serving till 1954. He also served as Secretary to the Cabinet Planning Committee and Chief Planning Commissioner from 1953 to 1954. In 1954, he was appointed Governor of the Central Bank which he held until 1959.[5][3]

He served as Ceylon's Ambassador to Italy and Greece from 1959 to 1961, with concurrent accreditation as Ceylon's Permanent Representative to Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).[3]

Honors

He was appointed a

Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in 1949 Birthday Honours and was knighted in the 1954 New Year Honours as a Knight Bachelor.[6][7] He was awarded the King George VI Coronation Medal in 1937 and the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal
in 1953.

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References

  1. ISSN 1757-0263
    . Retrieved 12 March 2021.
  2. ^ "Central Bank of Sri Lanka Retrospect 1950 to 2010" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  3. ^ a b c "Sir Arthur Ranasinghe (1954 – 1959)". cbsl.gov.lk. Central Bank of Sri Lanka. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
  4. ^ The ambivalent viva voce
  5. ^ Ceylon Civil List 1954. Colombo: Government of Ceylon.
  6. ^ "FOURTH SUPPLEMENT TO The London Gazette OF FRIDAY, 3rd JUNE, 1949". thegazette.co.uk. The London Gazette.
  7. ^ "FOURTH SUPPLEMENT TO The London Gazette OF TUESDAY, 29th DECEMBER, 1953". thegazette.co.uk. The London Gazette. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
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