Senator E. W. Kannangara, CCS ( Sinhala: කන්නන්ගර; ta, கன்னங்கரா) was a

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

n civil servant and statesmen. A senator, he had a long career in the

Ceylon Civil Service The Ceylon Civil Service, popularly known by its acronym CCS, was the premier civil service of the Government of Ceylon under British colonial rule and in the immediate post-independence period. Established in 1833, it functioned as part of the ...

during which he served as a

Permanent Secretary A permanent secretary (also known as a principal secretary) is the most senior Civil Service (United Kingdom), civil servant of a department or Ministry (government department), ministry charged with running the department or ministry's day-to-day ...

and as the Clerk of the State Council. He also served as Chief Commissioner of Boy Scouts of Ceylon in 1954, and served on the World Scout Committee of the World Organization of the Scout Movement from 1960 until 1961. Kingsley C. Dassanaike worked to promote Scouting for the deaf and blind with his support. Kannangara participated the 11th World Scout Jamboree, Marathon Greece 1963 as a Contingent Leader from Ceylon. His daughter

Manel Abeysekera Irangani Manel Abeysekera is a Sri Lankan diplomat. Having served as Sri Lankan Ambassador in Germany and Thailand, she is known as Sri Lanka's first woman career diplomat. Education She was born to E. W. Kannangara, a prominent civil servant ...

became the first Sri Lankan female diplomat.http://www.globalroomforwomen.com/global-heart-blog/entry/sri-lankas-first-woman-career-diplomat-qmadame-sirq-manel-abeysekera.html

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Members of the Senate of Ceylon Sinhalese civil servants Year of birth missing Scouting and Guiding in Sri Lanka {{SriLanka-bio-stub