N. E. Weerasooria
Appearance
N. E. Weerasooriya QC was an eminent Sri Lankan lawyer.[1]
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]