Sri Lankan Tamil Family Genealogy

KATHIRAVELUPILLAI, C.W. - Family #5008

1  C.W. Kathiravelupillai

...2  Kathiravelupillai Balasingham 1878-1952

Born:1878 at Valvetti, Vadamarachchi. Educated at Royal College, Colombo. Advocate, Second Tamil Member LC 1914-1920. Member Reformed LC 1924-1930. Member Executive Council. President Ceylon Social Reform Society. Acting DJ and Commissioner of Requests, Colombo. Contested Point Pedro seat in 1935 and lost. Editor, New Law Reports. Campaigned for the establishment of the State Mortgage Bank, College of Indigenous Medicine, Batticaloa-Trincomalee Railway, Department of Public Trustee. Was against the Poll Tax. Works include Laws of Ceylon, Persons and Things, Obligation and Torts, Criminal Law and Procedure, Civil Procedure Code (annotated), Law Reforms (codified), Notes on Digest of Law Reports, Corpus Juris (incomplete). Died:4-Sep-1952