''The Colombo Journal'' was a short-lived
English-language
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bi-weekly newspaper in
Ceylon
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. The newspaper started on 1 January 1832 with
George Lee as editor.
George Lee was the Superintendent of the Government Press and later
Postmaster General
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.
The newspaper had the support of the government and
Governor
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Robert Wilmot-Horton
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.
[ Apart from Horton and Lee other senior government officials who wrote for the newspaper included the governor's private secretary ]Henry Tufnell
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He was born the eldest son of William Tufnell of Chichester (MP for Colchester, 1806) and was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. i ...
and George Turnour
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. Criticism of the British government
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led to the newspaper being closed by the Colonial Office
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on 31 December 1833.
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1832 establishments in Ceylon
1833 disestablishments in Ceylon
Defunct English-language newspapers published in Sri Lanka
Publications established in 1832
Publications disestablished in 1833
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