J. H. Meedeniya

After serving in several posts including that of Deputy Coroner, he was appointed as a Rate Mahatmaya in 1897 and was awarded the honorary title of Dissawa and thereafter Adigar in 1920.

Punchi Banda Meedeniya is the grandson of Hunubadde Nilame, Mideniye Senanayaka Rajakaruna Panniki Mudihanse, who served under the last king of Kandy (See D' Olyly's Diary 19 April 1815).

Cornelius Senanayake, a prominent Sinhalese Anglican priest, scholar, and landowner, Corneliya Regina Obeysekere of Kataluwa Walawwa who was the sister of Lambertus Obeyesekere, Maha Mudaliyar.

His eldest daughter was Alice Wijewardena who married D. R. Wijewardena (the founder of Lake House newspaper group) and his younger daughter Adeline Molamure, succeeded her father and was elected to his seat and became the first female member of State Council of Ceylon thereby the first elected female legislator in Sri Lanka.

His son, Joseph Hercules Meedeniya who became the Rate Mahatmaya of Ratnapura, married Violet Ellawela.