Major Benjamin William Bawa, KC, VD (1865 – 1923) was a Ceylonese (Sri Lankan) lawyer.
Developing a practice in Kegalle and Colombo, he traveled to England in 1903 entering the Middle Temple and was called to the English Bar in 1904.
While in England he attended the School of Instruction for Officers of the Auxiliary Forces at the Chelsea Barracks.
[2] He was appointed as aide-de-camp (ADC) to Brigadier-General Sir William Manning, Governor of Ceylon, serving as his private secretary until 1923.
Bawa married Bertha Marian Campbell née Schrader, a Dutch Burgher woman[3] who was the daughter of a surgeon from Kandy.