Anthony Theodoric Armand "Doric" de Souza (1914–1987) was a Sri Lankan Trotskyist politician, Senator, Professor of English and a brilliant Marxist theoretician.
[1] Born to Goan journalist Armand de Souza, who was the editor of the Ceylon Morning Leader and a founding member of the Ceylon National Congress, Doric was educated at as a young child at St Bridgets Convent, and then at St. Joseph's College, Colombo as well the University College, Colombo where he graduated with a BA honours in English.
A member of the Trotskyist political party Lanka Sama Samaja Party, he became active in its underground work specially during World War II, when LSSP was banned for undermining the war effort.
He assisted Colvin R de Silva and N.M. Perera in breaking out of jail and smuggled them to India.
In 1946 he was elected to the Colombo Municipal Council and held the seat till 1952 when he resigned to take up the post of Senior Lecturer in the English Department in Peradeniya at the University of Ceylon.