About O. C. Tillekeratne
Lived 1878 – 1923 (aged 44–45). O. C. Tillekeratne was a politician.
Wickelia Oswald Christopher Dissanayaka Tillekeratne (???? – 13 April 1923) was a Ceylonese politician. He was elected member of the Legislative Council of Ceylon representing the Sinhalese in the 1917 legislative council election and was re-elected as the representative for the Southern Province in the 1921 legislative council election. He died on 13 April 1923 in a fatal train accident at the Wellawatte train station while in-office. He was succeeded by his kinsmen C. W. W. Kannangara in the by-election that followed for the vacant seat.
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Who was O. C. Tillekeratne?
ceylonese politician
When was O. C. Tillekeratne born?
O. C. Tillekeratne was born in 1878.
When did O. C. Tillekeratne die?
O. C. Tillekeratne died in 1923.
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O. C. Tillekeratne was a politician.
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