Family Life
He married the daughter of Sir Ernest de Silva, the Cambridge-educated Founder-Chairman of the Bank of Ceylon, making the lineage one of the most prominent traditionally-rich families in Sri Lanka. He is the grandson of Gate Mudaliyar Abraham Mendis Gunasekera Wijaya Sri Wardana a leading literary figure and the founder of the Sinhala-English Dictionary) and Great-Grandson of Mudaliyar Bastian Mendis Gunasekera. His mother was the philanthropist Mrs. H. M. Gunasekera (OBE, CBE) who together with Senator Lady Evadne De Silva started the Gamini Matha Home For Elders in 1938 and formed of the famous Mrs. H.M.Gunasekera Trust which mass prints Buddhist books for free distribution and constructed the Sambodhi Vihara in Colombo 7. His Grandmother, constructed a temple, the 'Abeysingharamaya' which he expanded and maintained. His younger daughter Sushila was a prominent tennis player in the early 1970s before attending University to study Architecture. His elder daughter Srimani became a Doctor and his son Dhammika an Engineer.
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