Reginald Cooray was a Sri Lankan teacher and politician.
He was a provincial chief minister, a government minister, and governor of the Northern Province. He was briefly governor of the Central Province in April 2018, his tenure lasting less than 24 hours, making it the shortest of any Governorship in Sri Lankan history.
Reginald Cooray’s funeral, burial service, pictures, date, time, venue
Cooray died on January 13, 2023. His course of death is not yet known. His funeral, burial service, pictures, date, time, and venue have not been announced yet and we will update you later.
However, Cooray was born on 12 November 1947. He was a Roman Catholic and a wealthy landowner. Cooray’s wife died in July 2011. His daughter Muditha Sanjeewani died in December 2013.
Cooray was an English teacher by profession. He started his political career in Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP). He contested the 1977 parliamentary election as an independent candidate in Beruwala but failed to get elected. He later joined Vijaya Kumaratunga’s Sri Lanka People’s Party (SLPP).
Source: Ghanafuo.com
