He entered Royal College Colombo in 1943 and excelled in athletics as a sprinter, pole vaulter and in cricket.

After completing his schooling, he went to London to study law at the Middle Temple and was called to the bar as a barrister.

[3] On his return from London, he was enrolled as an advocate of the Supreme Court of Ceylon and started his legal practice which he continued into the 1980s.

He contested the 1989 general elections in the Kalutara electorate from the Sri Lanka Freedom Party and was re-elected to parliament.

[4] Following his return from the United Kingdom; he served as chair of the One Text Initiative, Chairman of Marga Institute and was a director of the Carson Cumberbatch & Co.