Lucien Macull Dominic de Silva, QC, PC (25 April 1893 – 28 November 1962) was a Ceylonese lawyer and judge, who was a Solicitor General of Ceylon, sat on the Supreme Court of Ceylon and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
[1] In 1951, the Ceylon government decided to seek the appointment of a semi-permanent judge from the island to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, and de Silva was selected to fill the vacancy.
For tax reasons, on 1 October 1952, de Silva was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of Ceylon.
In January 1953, de Silva reached London and began to sit on the Judicial Committee.
[2][3] De Silva became a Bencher of Gray's Inn and was elected an honorary fellow of St John's College, Cambridge in 1956.