1961 S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike 10c Ceylon

1961 S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike 10c Ceylon 

1961 S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike 10c Ceylon 

Text:           10c S.W.R.D Bandaranaike Ceylon

Condition:    Ø = used/cancelled

Title:   S.W.R.D Bandaranaike

Face value:     10

Stamp Currency:        Ceylonese cent

Country/area:                     Ceylon

Year:   1961-01-08

Set:     1961  S.W.R.D Bandaranaike

Stamp number in set:           1

Basic colour:      Blue, Green

Exact colour:       Blue green, Violet blue

Usage:                           Definitive

Type:               Stamp

Theme:           Minister, Politician

Stamp subject:   S.W.R.D Bandaranaike

NVPH number:                     

Michel number:         316 I

Yvert number:                         334

Scott number:                         362

Stanley Gibbons number:    471

Printing office:           Bradbury Wilkinson & Co, Ltd, New Maiden

Perforation:    K 11¾

Size:                           

Watermark:     Without watermark

Paper:             Coated fibre-paper, glazed paper

Printing:             Photogravure

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S.W.R.D Bandaranaike

Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike was the fourth Prime Minister of Ceylon (later Sri Lanka) and founder of the Left wing and Sinhala nationalist Sri Lanka Freedom Party, serving as Prime Minister from 1956 until his assassination by a Buddhist robe wearer in 1959.

Bandaranaike entered S. Thomas College, situated in Mutwal where it now stands, after having moved there in 1930s. It is also believed he was privately tutuored and was sent to S.Thomas' for sake of records - as it was a requirement to gain admission to a British University one had to be at a formal school. his stint at STC was very brief before he entered Oxford University.

Bandaranaike was born in Colombo, Ceylon, to an elite Sinhalese Anglican Christian family and was the son of the powerful Sir Solomon Dias Bandaranike the Maha Mudaliyar (the chief native interpreter and advisor to the Governor) of Horagolla Walauwa in Atthanagalla, during British colonial rule, who named his son after West Ridgeway, the Governor of Ceylon at the time and was his god father. In later life he converted to Buddhism in order to join politics.[4] He received his secondary education at St Thomas' College and went on to study modern greats at Christ Church, Oxford University, where he was Secretary of the famous Oxford Union. He later qualified as a Barrister in England.