Glanville Peiris, SLOS

Sri Lanka Overseas Service

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 was a Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

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n diplomat

Diplomat

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, who was the former Director-General External Affairs, former Ceylon's Ambassador

Ambassador

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 to West Germany and Myanmar.

Educated at the prestigious Royal College Colombo

Royal College Colombo

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 and graduated from University of Ceylon

University of Ceylon

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. He was one of the first to joined the Ceylon Overseas Service. During his career in the foreign service Peiris has served as in many capacities including that of First Secretary of Ceylon's Embassy in Washington DC.

His brothers Bernard Peiris

Bernard Peiris

Bernard Percival Peiris, OBE, JP was a Sri Lankan lawyer. He was the former Cabinet Secretary and the Legal Draftsmen who drafted the Ceylon Order in Council, the first constitution of independent Ceylon.-Family:...

 was the former Cabinet Secretary

Cabinet Secretary

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 and S. W. Peiris, General Manager of Government Electrical Undertakings. His son is Prof G. L. Peiris

G. L. Peiris

Gamini Lakshman Peiris is a Sri Lankan politician and academic...

current Sri Lankan Cabinet Minister of External Affairs.