Lieutenant-Colonel John Pringle Appleby CMG, JP (1892 – 29 March 1966) was the Postmaster General of Ceylon for seven years, between 1940 and 1947.
[1] In 1907 he joined the Royal Mail,[2] in 1921 made a supplementary clerk,[3] and in 1933 was appointed the postmaster in Okehampton.
[4] Appleby served in the Royal Signal Corps during World War I and was appointed as a 2nd Lieutenant in 1917.
[5] On 4 July 1936 Appleby was made a Justice of the Peace for the District of Colombo and on 1 October he was formally appointed as the Assistant Postmaster-General, replacing Gate Mudaliyar A. G.
[6][7] On several occasions he served as acting Postmaster General before being formally appointed to the position in early 1940.