Item in THE ISLAND, November 2025
A book covering the entrepreneurial ability and other matters pertaining to the well-known Abeyesundere family from Galle, Sri Lanka, authored by scientist of repute Dr. Nirmala M. Pieris, will be launched on November 14 at 6 pm at the auditorium of the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute, Colombo 7.
‘The book traces the 220-year history of the Abeyesundere family of Galle and centres on Pemyano William Abeyesundere, a respected ship chandler, landowner, and philanthropist. It weaves together archival research, family records and oral histories to present a detailed account of heritage and community, the publisher says in a brief write-up.
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A NOTE From Michael Roberts, November 2025
The Abeyesundere family household in the mid-twentieth cenuty was in Kaluwella, the suburb where St. Aloysius ] College served all and sundry. Sushila and Lakshman Abeyesundere both attended St. Aloysius and Lakshman played for the cricket team when I was also in the team. He was one of our more fallible fielders, but pulled off two brilliant catches at cover when we had only three fielders in the off for one of our left-arm bowlers (Nizam? Vanderputt?) in the course of a strategic bowling programme called “leg-theory!” … a policy which won us that match as far as I can recall.
Leg-Theory!! Therein lies a MAJOR STORY….. that went into the history of Aloysian cricket as a team known as “The Invincibles” guided by Marcus Jayasinghe and led by Anwer Jawath. lakshman is seated on the Csrl extreme left next a bloke named roberts, while anver is seated at centre enxt to our revered Marcus coach, while Vernon Regis and Carlyle Rodrigo are seated to his right.
