Don Baron Jayatilaka

Sir Don Baron Jayatilaka (13 February 1868 - 29 May 1944) (known as D.B Jayatilaka) was a Sri Lankan educationalist, politician and diplomat.

Born at Waragoda, Kelaniya, he was the eldest male child of Don Daniel Jayatilaka, a government contractor, and his wife Liyanage Dona Elisiyana Perera Weerasinha. He had two brothers, and two sisters, both of whom died young.

When he was seven years Jayatilaka was sent to the Vidyalankara Pirivena, where he learned Sinhala, Pali and Sanskrit by Ratmalane Sri Dharmaloka Thera. To study English and other subjects in the English medium, he was sent to the local Baptist school from where he was sent to Wesley College in 1881, there he passed the junior and senior Cambridge examinations, traveling daily by cart from Kelaniya to the Pettah. He served as the Principal of Dharmaraja College and Ananda College.

Jayatilaka was knighted in 1943.

See also

• Sri Lankan Non Career Diplomats

External links & References

• Sir D.B. Jayatilaka - Scholar and National Leader
• A beacon of light

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Name	Jayatilaka, Don Baron
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Date of birth	13 February 1868
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Date of death	29 May 1944
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