Arthur Ranasinghe

Sir Arthur Ranasinha
Black and white photograph of Ranasinghe, as first Ceylonese ambassador to Israel, sat in a chair, with Yitzhak Ben-Zvi to his left on a sofa.
Ranasinghe (left) meeting Yitzhak Ben-Zvi in 1959
Secretary to the Treasury
Personal details
Born(1898-06-24)24 June 1898
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Died19 June 1976(1976-06-19) (aged 77)
Colombo, Sri Lanka

Sir Arthur Godwin Ranasinha, CMG, CBE, CCS (24 June 1898 – 19 June 1976) was a Sri Lankan civil servant and statesmen.[1] A career civil servant in the Ceylon Civil Service, he served as Secretary to the Treasury, Cabinet Secretary and Governor of the Central Bank of Ceylon before apportionment as a Cabinet Minister and Senator. He had also served as Ceylon's Ambassador to Italy.[2]

  1. ^ The Byron Society (1 January 1977). "Obituaries". The Byron Journal. 5 (1). Liverpool: Liverpool University Press: 112. doi:10.3828/bj.1977.14. ISSN 1757-0263. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
  2. ^ "Central Bank of Sri Lanka Retrospect 1950 to 2010" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 25 January 2015.