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Deshamanya N. U. Jayawardena

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 From the CBSL Website https://www.cbsl.gov.lk/en/about/about-the-bank/bank-history/nu-jayawardena Deshamanya N U Jayawardena (1953 – 1954) Deshamanya N U Jayawardena was the second Governor, assuming duties in July 1953 and vacating his position in October 1954. He was the first Ceylonese (Sri Lankan) Governor of the Central Bank of Ceylon. Deshamanya Jayawardena studied at St. Servatius College, Matara and completed his secondary education at St. Aloysius College, Galle. In 1931 he was awarded the London School of Economics External BSc Degree. He proceeded to study Business Administration at the London School of Economics in 1938.  He started his career in government clerical positions and was the only clerk at that time in Sri Lankan government service with a degree in Economics. In 1934 he was Assistant Secretary to the Pochkhanawala Ceylon Banking Commission. In 1941 he was a part time lecturer at the Ceylon University College. Deshamanya Jayawardena became Assistant Dir...
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N. U. Jayawardena, Galle & St. Aloysius College

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  GALLE AND ST. ALOYSIUS’ COLLEGE Courtesy The Island of   2025/06/1   (Excerpted from N.U. JAYAWARDENA The first five decades) By Kumari Jayawardena and Jennifer Moragoda       Garden party in the Quadrangle (c.1922) – in the background, the new Cambridge Block, with new Reading Room and Library located on the ground floor CHAPTER IV So my life from rags to riches, from elementary education to self-acquired knowledge, from shattering adversity to rewarding accomplishment, is an epitome of the determination, the tenacity, the purposefulness, and, above all, the cultural values, inculcated in me, as a Buddhist, by the teaching and the example of the Christian Fathers and Teachers who moulded my up-bringing in the impressionable age of my youth. I then learnt never to take no for an answer! (N.U. Jayawardena, The Aloysian 1915-1990 Diamond Souvenir, p.256)   The picturesque town of Galle, with its sea front, harbour, Dutch rampart...
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Down Memory Lane by N. U. Jayawardena

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Courtesy L. K. Hettiarachchi , Friends who Like St. Aloysius College, Galle  Deshamanya N U JAYAWARDENA Born 1908 Hambantota Died 2002 First Ceylonese Governor of the Central Bank of Ceylon Founder of the Mercantile Group of Companies Sri Lankan Senator, Economist, Banker and Entrepreneur. Mr. N U JAYAWARDENA wrote this article to the ALOYSIAN magazine Date 29th December 1989. DOWN MEMORY LANE
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N. U. Jayawardena - Influence of St. Aloysius & its Teachers

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  Courtesy – The Island of 08.06.2025 (Excerpted from N.U. JAYAWARDENA The first five decades) By Kumari Jayawardena and Jennifer Moragoda    Influence of St. Aloysius’ and Its Teachers       Early photo of the new Reading Room and Library (c.1923)   So my life from rags to riches, from elementary education to self-acquired knowledge, from shattering adversity to rewarding accomplishment, is an epitome of the determination, the tenacity, the purposefulness, and, above all, the cultural values, inculcated in me, as a Buddhist, by the teaching and the example of the Christian Fathers and Teachers who moulded my up-bringing in the impressionable age of my youth. I then learnt never to take no for an answer! (N.U. Jayawardena, The Aloysian 1915-1990 Diamond Souvenir, p.256) (Chapter IV continued) Compared to the other schools NU had attended, St. Aloysius’ with its numerous facilit...
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