Dornhorst Memorial Prize

The Dornhorst Memorial Prize is a most prestigious prize and honour awarded to a student of Royal College Colombo, the oldest public school in the country. Awarded annually to the most popular student, judged by General Merit. The selection is made based on votes gained in a secret ballot conducted among the senior boys, teaching staff and the Principal. First awarded in 1930 and in memory of Frederick Dornhorst, KC a distinguished Old Royalist.

The award should not be confused with the Turnour Prize the oldest prize in the school which had been awarded since 1846 and the Lalith Athulathmudali Memorial Prize awarded to the most outstanding Royalist of the year.

Notable winners of the Dornhorst Memorial Prize include Justice C.G. Weeramantry (1944), former Judge of the International Court of Justice; Rt Revd Lakshman Wickremasinghe (1945), former Bishop of Kurunegala; Neville Kanakeratne (1942), former Sri Lankan Ambassador and Colonel Fredrick de Saram.

Winners of the Dornhorst Memorial Prize

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• Fredrick de Saram (1930)
• B.A.Kuruppu (1931)
• A.C.Ebell(1932)
• D.C.T.Pate (1933)
• R.S.Cooke (1934)
• P.G.B. Keuneman (1935)
• F.H.De Saram (1936)
• M.Sivanathan (1937)
• A.E.Keuneman (1938)
• B.Mahadeva (1939)
• B.St.E.De Bruin (1940)^[1]
• Neville Kanakeratne (1941)
• S.G.Salgado (1942)
• C.G. Weeramantry (1943)
• Lakshman Wickremasinghe (1944)
• L.C. Arulpragasam (1945)
• Upali Amerasinghe (1946)
• Nihal Silva^[2]
• Tony Anghie^[3]
• H.P.Jayawardena (1982)
• Yasas Abeywickrama (1988)
• Senaka Bandusena (1989)
• Hiran Wimalaratne (1990)
• Udara Kularatne (1991)
• P.S.Udara Fernando(1994)
• Charitha Ratwatte III (1996)
• S.W. Pansalawatte(2005)
• Akbo Rupasinghe (2007)

Fictional winners

• Carlaboy von Bloss

References

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