Forester Augustus Obeyesekere

Forester Augustus Obeyesekere (7 August 1880 – 26 December 1961) was a prominent colonial era legislator from Ceylon.

[1][2] Born to Sir Solomon Christoffel Obeyesekere[3] a member of the Legislative Council, F A Obeysekera was educated at Royal College, Colombo, where he captained the cricket team at the Royal-Thomian and played for the Singhalese Sports Club.

In 1934, he became Speaker when Sir Francis Molamure stepped down for personal reasons.

[7] He married Amy Isabel Sykes and they had two children, Boykin and Ezlynne.

Ezlynne married Ralph Deraniyagala, MBE who became the Clerk of Parliament.