N. E. Weerasooriya

N. E. Weerasooriya or Weerasooria QC (died 1974) was an eminent Sri Lankan lawyer.[1]

N. E. Weerasooriya

Educated at Royal College Colombo, where he edited the College Magazine and at the Ceylon Law College. He gained prominence as a lawyer being appointed as a Queen's Counsel and as a historian authoring several books on Sri Lanka.[2]

In the 1953 he was appointed to chair the Commission of Broadcasting[3] and in the early 1960s he was the founding Chairmen of the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation in the 1960s.[4]

He used the pen-name "Fijjik".

Selected publications
  • Tales of Old Ceylon (1963) (4 vols.)
  • Modern Ceylon Through the Looking Glass (1965)
  • Ceylon and her People
  • Ran Kumari - A Golden Princess of the Kandyan Hills

References
  1. "George E. de Silva". island.lk.
  2. 61st Death Anniversary of Piyadasa Sirisena fell on Agu.31 A patriot to be remembered
  3. Muslim and Tamil Services of the SLBC
  4. Ceypetco and its new office complex: Truth


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