E. B. Wikramanayake

{{Short description|Ceylonese statesman and lawyer}}

Eric Bird Wikramanayake, QC was a Ceylonese statesman and lawyer. He was the Minister of Justice in the cabinet of Prime Minister Sir John Kotelawala and a member of the Senate of Ceylon.{{Cite news|first=Roger |last=Thiedeman|url=https://www.sundaytimes.lk/040215/plus/2.html|title=Plus|work=The Sunday Times|accessdate=September 1, 2023}} A successful lawyer[https://archive.today/20130825103203/http://www.lawnet.lk/docs/case_law/nlr/common/html/NLR49V344.htm PODI SINGHO, Petitioner, and A. E. GOONESINHA, Respondent.] he was appointed a King's Counsel in 1948 and had been educated at S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia. He led the appeal of those convicted in the Bandaranaike assassination. He was the father of Elanga Wikramanayake and grandfather of Arittha R Wikramanayake, Eric Wikramanayake and Athula Wikramanayake.{{cite web|url=http://www.stcmloba.org/newsletter_archive/newsletter_12312006.pdf|title=Tales of Thomian legal eagles .......page 14 The Old Boy 31.12.2006|publisher=www.stcmloba.org|date=2006-12-31|accessdate=2011-12-25|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426011029/http://www.stcmloba.org/newsletter_archive/newsletter_12312006.pdf|archivedate=2012-04-26}}

Wikramanayake was founder President of the Wildlife Protection Society of Sri Lanka{{cite web|url=http://www.customs.gov.lk/docs/25377.pdf|title=AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE WILDLIFE PROTECTION SOCIETY OF CEYLON. Act Nos,29 of 1968|publisher=www.customs.gov.lk|accessdate=2011-10-10|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425064312/http://www.customs.gov.lk/docs/25377.pdf|archivedate=2012-04-25}} and served on the Board of Governors of S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia.