James Cecil Walter Pereira (10 September 1856 – 9 June 1915) was the 4th

Solicitor General of Ceylon The Solicitor General of Sri Lanka is a post subordinate to the Attorney General of Sri Lanka. The Solicitor General of Sri Lanka assists the Attorney General, and is assisted by four Additional Solicitors General. Note that the post was Solicit ...

. He was appointed on 1906, succeeding

Ponnambalam Ramanathan Sir Ponnambalam Ramanathan, CMG, KC ( ta, பொன்னம்பலம் இராமநாதன், translit=Poṉṉampalam Irāmanātaṉ; 16 April 1851 – 26 November 1930) was a Ceylon Tamil lawyer, politician and Solicitor-General o ...

, and held the office until 1912. He was succeeded by

James Van Langenberg James Arthur Van Langenberg KC (2 March 1866 – 30 April 1915) was the 5th Solicitor General of Ceylon. James Arthur Van Langenberg was born in Colombo on 2 March 1866, the second son of James Arthur Van Langenberg (1839–1886) Knight Commander ...

. James Cecil Walter Pereira was born on 10 September 1856, the second son of John Pereira, a school master at Queen's College and Susan Sally née de Haan. He was educated at the

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, St. Thomas' College and graduated from

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. In 1878 he was admitted as a

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of the District Court of Colombo, having served an apprenticeship under

Frederick Charles Loos Frederick Charles Loos (13 December 1834 – 21 August 1911) was a Ceylonese lawyer and politician. Frederick Charles Loos was born on 13 December 1834, the son of Christiaan Albertus Loos (Registrar of the Supreme Court of Ceylon) and Co ...

. In 1880 he enrolled as a proctor of the Supreme Court of Colombo. In late 1885 he travelled to England and was admitted to the

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and was

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in early 1887. The same year he returned to Ceylon and was admitted as an advocate of the Supreme Court. He was admitted as an advocate of the High Court of

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. In 1904 he was made a

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. Pereira was a prominent member of the Ceylon National Association and was a founder of the

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, the first Ceylonese only social club in the country. In 1895 he married Helena Blanche née McCarthy (1875-1961) and they had three children: Aelian Walter Woodward (b. 1896); Aileen Helena Suzette Woodward (b. 1899) and Christine Helen Wilhelmina Woodward (b. 1905).

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