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The Senanayakes at STC, at Cricket and in Politics in Ceylon-by Michael Roberts<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n

\"Michael<\/p>\n

Source:<\/span><\/strong>Thuppahis<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

In seeking details relating to DS Senanayake\u2019s career at S. Thomas\u2019 College after I received a copy of his school-leaving character reference from Warden Stone,[1]<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0I received a fascinating note from Mevan Pieris[2]<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0about young DS Senanayake\u2019s school career and his cricketing \u2018achievements\u2019 at the big match against Royal.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIndeed, a valuable item [referring to Warden Stone\u2019s certificate]. At least a certified photocopy of it should be maintained at the College Library and at the National Archives, especially since\u00a0he was known as Kele John who could not pass any examinations and was in what was called the Commercial Class of STC<\/strong>. No doubt he was physically strong and tough and would have been an ideal dormitory prefect to keep the guys quiet. \u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u2018By the sea\u2019 at Mutwal looking at Colombo Harbour \u2014 scenic paintng from O\u2019Brien the 1860s<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Continuing Mevan Pieris says: \u201cThe year he left STC, he played in the Royal-Thomian match, and also in the previous1901 match. He batted first wicket in 1901 and\u00a0in his debut got a duck in each innings<\/strong>, and in the following year had been demoted to No 10 and was able to make a solitary run. He was not a bowler.\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

DS Senanayake and his two older brothers were boarders at the expensive elite school of S. Thomas\u2019 located at Mutwal north of Colombo because they were the children of a wealthy nouveaux riches entrepreneur named Don Spater Senanayake, whose home base was in Botale near Mirigama and whose expanding economic assets were in surface graphite mines and coconut plantations as well as house property in Colombo.\u201d[3]<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Don Spater Senanayake passed away in his sixtieth year on 7 December 1907.[4]<\/a>\u00a0He and his family are featured prominently in Arnold Wright\u2019s huge composition\u00a0Twentieth Century Impressions of Ceylon<\/em>\u00a0(printed originally in 1907). His many assets enabled him to secure marriages for his sons with respectable Govigama families from the top drawer; and to finance FR Senanayake\u2019s education in England.[5]<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0These resources and connections also enabled the Senanayake brothers to take a prominent role in the temperance movement of the 1900s and 1910s and the political agitation mounted by the Ceylon Reform League (1917-19) and Ceylon National Congress in the 1920s.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The three Senanayakes & Amadoris Mendis and others at ease at their estate in Botale<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Needless to say, DS Senanayake\u2019s sons, Dudley Senanayake and Robert Senanayake were also enrolled at S. Thomas\u2019 College, which, by then, in the 1920s, had moved from Mutwal \u2018by the sea\u2019 to another location\u00a0\u2018by the sea\u2019 in Mount Lavinia<\/strong>\u00a0in the south of Colombo. Both sons accomplished enough at cricket to secure spots in the Thomian cricket team. Thus, they feature in the cricket team captained by R. Hermon that played against St. Peter\u2019s College, Adelaide on 19 January 1928 \u2014 when the latter squad toured Ceylon that month and played matches against the plantation clubs upcountry as well as STC, Royal and Trinity (a tour that is a clue to the gentlemanly riches sustaining the school in Adelaide).[6]<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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While at S. Thomas, Dudley stood out and secured colours in hockey, cricket, boxing and athletics. He was made Head Prefect at one point, while also winning \u201cthe Victoria gold Medal for the most outstanding student at S. Thomas.\u201d[7]<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0The cricketing careers of the two Senanayakes have been spelt out for me by Mevan Pieris:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDudley was a delightful batsman, and in his debut in in 1927, Dudley made 48 not out in a Thomian score of 222 runs and was unlucky to miss a half century. The Thomians won that match by an innings. In 1928, in a drawn match, Dudley made 23 and 6 runs, and his brother Robert playing his first big match made\u00a0 2 and 21 runs. Robert was also a medium pace bowler but had not taken any wickets.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1929, the Jubilee match was played at the SSC grounds at Victoria Park, and Royal won the match by 7 wickets. The Senanayake brothers played in this match. Dudley batted at the fall of the second wicket and scored 32 and 14 runs, and his younger brother Robert,\u00a0opened batting, and made 46 and 2 runs.Robert took 2 wickets\u00a0in the match and Dudley the prize wicket of FC De Saram.In this Jubilee match F C De Saram of Royal made the highest score of 72\u00a0 runs before being ruled LBW to Dudley.<\/span><\/p>\n

Soon after the Jubilee match Dudley entered Cambridge and completed the Natural Sciences Tripos. He won his College Colours\u00a0but could not get his Blues. Back at home Dudley took to politics and after his father DSS fell off his horse and died, Dudley became the Prime Minister of Ceylon.<\/span><\/p>\n

Robert played in the 1930 match as well and captained the Thomian team. Royal won this match by an innings and it was in this match that the legendary Royal cricketer DB (Barney) Gunasekere made a record breaking innings of 148 runs. In addition, DB Gunasekere took 7 wickets for\u00a057 runs in the first innings and 2 \/ 53 in the second. DB was truly\u00a0a great all-rounder. Robert opened the batting and made 11 and 22 runs.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1931, Robert captained S. Thomas\u2019 College a second time and lost again to Royal by a huge margin of 8 wickets. Royal was captained this year by FC De Saram the great, who made 140 runs in Royal\u2019s first innings and also took 6 wickets for 52 runs in the Thomian second innings. Robert Senanayake made a duck in the first innings and 12 runs in the second innings.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1932, Robert Senanayake played his 5th big match and captained STC for the third consecutive year and lost to Royal for the third consecutive time by a massive margin of 9 wickets. No Thomian captain in living memory has had such a poor record as captain as Robert, who made 2 runs in the first innings and ended with a half century in the second innings. Robert too entered Cambridge thereafter and won his College Colours at Cambridge, but not his Blues.\u201d \u2026.[Mevan Peiris NOTE]<\/span><\/p>\n

Following his return from Cambridge and England, Dudley Senanayake went on to participate in the local political scene \u2013 becoming part of a ginger group within the Ceylon National Congress in the late 1930s that I have identified as\u00a0the \u201cYoung Turks.<\/strong>\u201d[8]<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0This cluster of relatively radical voices were mostly from the legal profession and pushed for greater attention to economic reform at the annual CNC sessions in December 1938. Then, at a \u201cspecial meeting\u201d in March 1939 this ginger group also vocifersously argued for non-cooperation with the British government if the demands presented by the Ceylonese leaders in the State Council were not met.<\/span><\/p>\n

JR Jayewardene, Stanley de Zoysa, CPG Abeyewardena, JAL Cooray and AWH Abeyesundere seem to have been the principal figures in this ginger group; but FC de Saram[9]<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and Dudley Senanayake[10]<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0were also among those stirring the pot at the outset. JR Jayewardene and Dudley Senanayake became the new CNC Secretaries in February 1940 and pressed forward with endeavours to broaden the base of the CNC and to push for greater \u201ceconomic freedom\u201d for Ceylon.<\/span><\/p>\n

These moves then escalated into efforts to convert the Ceylon National Congress into a political party rather than a loose political front (the position favoured by the pragmatic DS Senanayake). These endeavours came to a head in December 1943 when the young reformists[11]<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0sought admission for the Ceylon Communist Party into the ranks of the CNC \u2013 a step which led DS Senanayake, by then the leader of the State Council, to resign from the CNC.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jennings at work \u2026. and so too DS Senanayake on the road so to speak \u2026 and then in London in 1946(?) with OEG and ?? to press the British government of that day\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

As the Soulbury Commission visited Ceylon to consider further reforms and the Second World War came to an end, the political clout of the Ceylon National Congress diminished still further. Both the backroom planning and the frontline spearheads in the push for the island\u2019s independence rested in the hands of DS Senanayake as Leader of the State Council and the \u2018schemers\u2019 in the Office of the Civil Defence Commission, namely, OE Goonetilleke and his aide Ivor Jennings.[12]<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0The fact that the office rooms of DS Senanayake and those of the Civil Defence Commission were in the same building facilitated this cooperation.[13]<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0In consequence the agitation mounted by the Ceylon National Congress during the years 1944-to-1948 became a mere sideshow.<\/span><\/p>\n

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DS at a wartime function<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Soulbury Commissioners at Pelmadulla during tours arranged by OE Goonetilleke<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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DS and OE Goonetilleke in London with the Ceylon High Commissioner Corea in 1946 seeking to lobby the Colonial Office<\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n

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SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Sampson Abeyesooriya<\/strong>\u00a0(comp) 1927(?)\u00a0Who\u2019s Who of Ceylon<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Vernon H. Gunasekera\u00a0<\/strong>1981<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Life and Times of Sir Oliver Goonetilleke<\/em>, Kandy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Michael Roberts<\/strong>\u00a01977 \u201cElites, Nationalisms and the Nationalist Movement in British Ceylon,\u201d\u00a0being a book within a book in<\/em>\u00a0Documents of the Ceylon National Congress and Nationalist Politics in Ceylon 1929-1950<\/em>,\u00a0<\/strong>Colombo, Department of National Archives, pp. xxvii-ccxi.<\/span><\/p>\n

Michael Roberts 2018\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cHow It Became. Documenting the Ceylon National Congress,\u201d\u00a0https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2018\/05\/22\/how-it-became-documenting-the-ceylon-national-congress\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Michael Roberts<\/strong>\u00a02018 \u201cHow It Became. Documenting the Ceylon National Congress,\u201d 22 May 2018,\u00a0https:\/\/thuppahi.wordpress.com\/?p=30414&preview=true<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Michael Roberts 2020\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cThe Donoughmore Reforms in Ceylon in Retrospect: The Missing Background of Naval Power,\u201d 18 July 2020.\u00a0https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/the-donoughmore-reforms-in-ceylon-in-retrospect-the-missing-background-of-naval-power\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Michael Roberts 2020\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cPushing th British out of Ceylon, 1918-1956,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a023 July 2020,\u00a0<\/strong>https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2020\/07\/23\/pushing-the-british-out-of-ceylon-1918-1956-issues\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Arnold Wright<\/strong>\u00a0(ed.) 1907\u00a0Twentieth Century Impressions of Ceylon:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Lloyds\u2019 Greater Britain Publishing Company.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wikipedia<\/strong>\u00a0n.d. \u201cIvor Jennings,\u201d\u00a0https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ivor_Jennings<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2022\/01\/14\/warden-stones-school-leaving-endorsement-of-young-ds-senanayake\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/a>END NOTES<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

[1]\u00a0This item was kindly sent to me by Chandra Schaffter,\u00a0<\/strong>a former Thomian who also represented Ceylon at cricket and hockey\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026. See\u00a0https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2022\/01\/14\/warden-stones-school-leaving-endorsement-of-young-ds-senanayake\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

[2]<\/a>\u00a0HSM Pieris also represented S. Thomas\u2019 College at cricket and went on to play for the Ceylon sides in the 1970s, notably during the tour of England in 1975.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

[3]<\/a>\u00a0Don Spater Senanayake<\/strong>\u00a0was born in 1847 and a full-page photograph of him adorns page 613 of Arnold Wright\u2019s\u00a0Twentieth Century impressions of Ceylon<\/em>, Colombo, 1907,.<\/span><\/p>\n

[4]<\/a>\u00a0See Sampson Abeyesooriya (ed.)\u00a0Who\u2019s Who of Ceylon<\/em>, red edn Colombo, 1927(?)<\/span><\/p>\n

[5]<\/a>\u00a0FR Senanayake married Ellen Attygalle, the youngest daughter of\u00a0Mudaliyar<\/a>\u00a0Don Charles Gemoris Attygalle<\/a>; while his sister Maria Frances Senanayake married F. H. Dias Bandaranaike. D. S. Senanayake married\u00a0Molly Dunuwila<\/a>\u00a0in 1910. She was the daughter of R. R. Dunuwila, then Secretary of the\u00a0Colombo Municipal Council and Grace Jayatilaka, daughter of Frederick Jayatilaka of the\u00a0Ceylon Civil Service and District Judge of Kalutara.<\/span><\/p>\n

[6]<\/a>\u00a0St. Peters is one of the elite upper class boys\u2019 schools in Adelaide,\u2026.\u00a0 rivalling Pulteney Grammar, Wilderness, Scotch College and others. The details of the Tour of Ceylon were made available via the Library at St. Peters which has the scoresheets. The Team included one S. F. Downer and one I. H. Seppelt. \u00a0The Downes can be presented as a leading political dynasty and well-to-do property owners in South Australia, while the Seppelts are associated with wineries and landed property.<\/span><\/p>\n

[7]<\/a>\u00a0From\u00a0https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dudley_Senanayake<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

[8]<\/a>\u00a0The account that follows is taken from Roberts, \u201cElites,\u201d 1977, pages cxli\u2013clx.<\/span><\/p>\n

[9]<\/a>\u00a0FC De Saram joined the SL Army Reserves as an officer at some point after the Second World War had broken out. This step would have precluded any open political activity.<\/span><\/p>\n

[10]<\/a>\u00a0Dudley and Robert Senanayake seem to have been keen members of the cricket club SSC where the bar, billiards and card games fostered convivial interaction. FC de Saram and JR Jayewardene were also SSC stalwarts. So, the SSC premises are likely to have been a spot where some political planning occurred.<\/span><\/p>\n

[11]<\/a>\u00a0Dudley Senanayake\u2019s position at this moment is unclear. He seems to have distanced himself from the Young Turks at some point and moved closer to his father and OEG.<\/span><\/p>\n

[12]<\/a>\u00a0Ivor Jennings had been \u201csent to\u00a0Ceylon<\/a>\u00a0by the\u00a0British Government<\/a>\u00a0in 1942 as the Principal of the University College, Colombo with a mandate to create a university for that land\u201d and [during World War Two also \u00a0served] as the Deputy Civil Defense Commissioner\u201d (Wikipedia),<\/span><\/p>\n

[13]<\/a>\u00a0For this process see Vernon Gunasekera 1980 and Roberts, \u201cPushing Britain out of Ceylon,\u201d 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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