Wilfred Martin Rajapakse (1864 – ????) was a

Ceylon 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 ...

ese lawyer and politician. He was a member of the Legislative Council of Ceylon from 1921 to 1924. Born in Colombo to Mudaliar John de Silva Rajapakse, he was educated at

Royal College, Colombo Royal College, Colombo is a selective entry boys' school located in Cinnamon Gardens, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Started as a private school by Rev Joseph Marsh in 1835, it was established as the Colombo Academy by Sir Robert Wilmot-Horton in Janua ...

and apprenticed under

Frederick Dornhorst Frederick Dornhorst, KC was a Ceylonese ( Sri Lankan) barrister and King's Advocate. Educated at Colombo Academy (now Royal College Colombo), Dornhorst became a teacher at the Colombo Academy before moving on to a legal career and becoming a ...

, becoming

Proctor Proctor (a variant of ''procurator'') is a person who takes charge of, or acts for, another. The title is used in England and some other English-speaking countries in three principal contexts: * In law, a proctor is a historical class of lawye ...

of the District Court in 1890 and of the Supreme Court in 1894 and a Notary Public. He had his practice in Negombo, where he owned several coconut estates in the districts of Negombo and Chilaw. On various occasions he had as acted as the District Judge, Commissioner of Requests and the Police Magistrate of Negombo. He married Catherine, daughter of B. Mendis of Colombo and the family lived at The Retreat, Negombo. He was elected member of the Legislative Council of Ceylon representing the Western Province (Division A) in the 1921 legislative council election.

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20th-century Sri Lankan people 1864 births {{SriLanka-politician-stub Members of the Legislative Council of Ceylon Sri Lankan politicians Sinhalese people Sri Lankan lawyers Ceylonese proctors Alumni of Royal College, Colombo Year of death missing People from British Ceylon