Edmund Walter Perera Seneviratne Jayawardena, QC (6 March 1910 - 1983) was a Sri Lankan lawyer and diplomat.
Having graduated with a BA degree from the University of London, Jayawardena was called to the bar in 1941 as an Barrister from the Lincoln's Inn.
Returning to Ceylon, he started his legal practice in the unofficial bar, yet served as an acting/additional crown counsel at times between 1942 and 1944.
[1][2] He returned to unofficial bar and served as Sri Lankan Ambassador to the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia from 1977 to 1978.
He had seven grandchildren, all brought up in Youghal, Co. Cork, Ireland: Walter,[4] Reuben, Lucy, Tamar, Frederick, Gregory and Abigail.