Maurice Salvador Sreshta (22 September 1872 - 6 July 1952) served as the Postmaster General of Ceylon from 1923 to 1928.
Maurice Salvador Sreshta was born on 22 September 1872 in Coimbatore, India,[1] the third son and fourth of seven children to Dewan Bahadur Alexio Pinto (a government civil servant) and Martha Maria née Vas.
[1][4] In February 1923, Sreshta reached the culmination of his career when he was appointed as Postmaster General of Ceylon, the first non-European to attain this position.
In 1928 following his retirement, he returned to Mangalore, where in 1929 he was elected vice-chairman of the Mangalore Municipality and then in February 1932 as a member of the Madras Legislative Council, as the Indian Christian nominee, representing the Justice Party.
Sreshta was an active member of various Catholic bodies and for a number of years served as the editor of the community magazine, Mangalore.