Don Charles Gemoris Attygalle

Mudaliyar Don Charles Gemoris Attygalle (8 September 1836 - 12 December 1901) was a Ceylonese, an entrepreneur and mine owner. He was a successful graphite mine owner and was given the titular title of Mudaliyar for social service by the British Governor of Ceylon. Through the marriage of his daughters the Senanayake family and the Jayewardene family were connected and played a major part in the Sri Lankan independence movement and in the post independence politics, foundered in part by the wealth he had accumulated. rdf:langString