Dr Cyril Francis Fernando, C.M.G., O.B.E., M.D., M.R.C.P. was a Sri Lankan Clinician and researcher.

Fernando was educated like Marcus Fernando

Marcus Fernando

Sir Hilarian Marcus Fernando, was a pre-independence Ceylonese statesmen, physician and banker. He was a member of both the Executive Council and Legislative Council as well as the Chairman of the State Mortgage Bank of Ceylon.-Education:...

 and Professor PB Fernando

PB Fernando

Panagodage Bertram Fernando LMS MBBS , MD FRCP DTM&H OBE is First Professor of Medicine Ceylon Medical College and Faculty of Medicine University of Colombo. Fernando was educated like Marcus Fernando at St. Benedict's College, Colombo. He was awarded a Government scholarship to the Ceylon...

 (no relation) at St. Benedict's College, Colombo. He attended University College Hospital, London, qualifying M.B. B.S. (1925) and obtaining MRCP in 1926 and M.D. in 1929 winning the gold medal.

He was appointed physician to out-patients at Colombo General Hospital and was an external faculty member and examiner in medicine in the Ceylon Medical College and later the Faculty of Medicine University of Ceylon

University of Ceylon

The University of Ceylon was the only university in Sri Lanka from 1942 until 1972. It had several constituent campuses at various locations around Sri Lanka. The University of Ceylon Act No. 1 of 1972, replaced it with the University of Sri Lanka which existed from 1973 to 1978. In 1978 it was...

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He was honorary secretary and treasurer of the Ceylon Branch of the B.M.A (later renamed Sri Lanka Medical Association) 1930-32, a member of the council in 1933, 1934,
and 1949, vice-president in 1942, and president in 1948-9 . He was awarded O.B.E. in 1949 and C.M.G. in 1955.

The Ceylon College of Physicians commemorates his memory with an award of a Gold Medal Oration delivered during its annual scientific sessions.