Dudley Senanayake

E37798

Sri Lankan politician human prime minister

Dudley Senanayake was a prominent Sri Lankan statesman who served multiple terms as prime minister and played a key role in the country’s early post-independence politics.

Aliases (5)

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Sri Lankan politician → human → prime minister →
causeOfDeath	heart attack →
countryOfCitizenship	Dominion of Ceylon → Sri Lanka →
dateOfBirth	1911-06-19 →
dateOfDeath	1973-04-13 →
educatedAt	Corpus Christi College, Cambridge NERFINISHED → S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia → University of Cambridge NERFINISHED →
electedIn	1947 Ceylonese parliamentary election → 1960 Ceylonese parliamentary election → 1965 Ceylonese parliamentary election →
ethnicGroup	Sinhalese →
familyName	Senanayake →
father	D. S. Senanayake →
fieldOfStudy	law →
fullName	Dudley Shelton Senanayake →
givenName	Dudley →
headOfGovernmentOf	Ceylon →
knownFor	advocacy of parliamentary democracy in Sri Lanka → agricultural and rural development policies → leading Ceylon in early post-independence period →
memberOfPoliticalParty	United National Party →
mother	Molly Dunuwila Senanayake →
occupation	lawyer → statesman →
parliamentaryBody	Parliament of Ceylon →
placeOfBirth	Ceylon → Colombo →
placeOfDeath	Colombo → Sri Lanka →
positionHeld	Leader of the Opposition (Ceylon) → Leader of the United National Party → Minister of Agriculture and Lands of Ceylon → Prime Minister of Ceylon →
precededBy	D. S. Senanayake → Sirimavo Bandaranaike → W. Dahanayake →
relative	Fredrick de Silva → R. G. Senanayake →
religion	Buddhism →
succeededBy	Sir John Kotelawala → Sirimavo Bandaranaike →
termEnd	1953-10-12 → 1960-07-21 → 1970-05-29 →
termStart	1952-03-26 → 1960-03-21 → 1965-03-25 →

Referenced by (8)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Sirimavo Bandaranaike ("Dudley Senanayake (as Prime Minister in 1960)") → Sirimavo Bandaranaike ("Dudley Senanayake (as Prime Minister in 1970)") →	precededBy
D. S. Senanayake →	child
Dudley Senanayake ("Senanayake") →	familyName
Dudley Senanayake ("Dudley Shelton Senanayake") →	fullName
Dominion of Ceylon →	headOfGovernment
Sirimavo Bandaranaike ("Dudley Senanayake (as Prime Minister in 1965)") →	succeededBy
D. S. Senanayake →	successor