R. S. V. Poulier

Hon.
R. S. V. Poulier
CBE
Member of Parliament
for Appointed member
In office
12 April 1956 – 7 July 1959
In office
13 October 1959 – 5 December 1959
Senator of Ceylon
In office
1953 – April 1956
Personal details
Born
Reginald Sydney Vernon Poulier

(1894-08-03)3 August 1894
Died7 November 1976(1976-11-07) (aged 82)
NationalityCeylonese
Political partyIndependent
SpouseHenrietta Amelia née de Vos
ChildrenReginald Fredrick
Alma materRoyal College, Colombo, University of London
Occupationcivil servant, politician

Reginald Sydney Vernon Poulier, CBE (3 August 1894 - 7 November 1976) was a Ceylonese statesman and civil servant.

He was educated at Royal College, Colombo and gained a BA from the University of London. In 1914, he joined the education department and was select the Ceylon Civil Service in 1919 and went on to serve in many appointments including Government Agent of Ratnapura.[1]

On 30 December 1924 he married Henrietta Amelia née de Vos (b. 1905) at All Saints' Church, Galle. They had one son, Reginald Fredrick, born 10 June 1932.[2]

Poulier was awarded a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1947 New Year Honours list, for his services as Food Commissioner (Control and Distribution) in Ceylon.[3]

In 1948 following the 1st parliamentary elections Poulier was recruited from the Ceylon Civil Service to a position of Parliamentary Secretary.[4]

In 1953 following his retirement from the Civil Service he was appointed to the Senate of Ceylon[5][6] on 27 August and in 1956 he resigned from the Senate to take up a position as an appointed member of parliament. In 1958 he was selected to be a member on the Joint Select Committee on the Revision of the Constitution.[7] He was re-appointed as a member of parliament after both the March and July 1960 parliamentary elections.[8] Poulier served as Chairman of Public Accounts Committee[9] from 1960[10] to 1962.[11]

He served as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance in the First Sirimavo Bandaranaike cabinet, from 28 August 1962 to 6 May 1963,[12] following the resignation of George Rajapaksa.[8]

Poulier also served as the president of the Dutch Burgher Union of Ceylon from 1955 to 1957.[13]

  1. ^ GENEALOGY OF THE FAMILY OF SANSONI OF CEYLON
  2. ^ "Journal of the Dutch Burger Union of Ceylon" (PDF). XLIX. Dutch Burgher Union of Ceylon. April 1959: 29. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. ^ United Kingdom list: "No. 37835". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1946. pp. 1–30.
  4. ^ Punchihewa, P. G. (21 April 2018). "The Ceylon Civil Service (C.C.S) and the University of Ceylon - a symbiotic relationship". The Island. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
  5. ^ "He gave of his best, but died a disillusioned man". The Sunday Times. 28 May 2000. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
  6. ^ SRI LANKA: THE UNTOLD STORY Assassination of Bandaranaike
  7. ^ Schonthal, Benjiman (2016). Buddhism, Politics and the Limits of Law: The Pyrrhic Constitutionalism of Sri Lanka. Cambridge University Press. pp. 72–75. ISBN 9781107152236.
  8. ^ a b "Asian Recorder, Volume 8". 1962: 4814. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  9. ^ Committee on Public Accounts Archived 2012-06-23 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^ "Parliamentary Debates, Volume 39". Parliament of Ceylon. 1960: lix. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  11. ^ "Sri Lanka Treasuries auction fails two weeks in a row". The Island. 19 March 2016. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
  12. ^ "List of Ministers and Deputy Ministers". Ministry of Finance. Archived from the original on 27 September 2015.
  13. ^ "Journal of the Dutch Burger Union of Ceylon". XLVIII. Dutch Burgher Union of Ceylon. January 1958: 15. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)