| Honorific prefix | Hon. |
|---|---|
| Office | Minister of Industries and Scientific Affairs |
| Term start | May 1970 |
| Term end | 1 March 1977 |
| Prime minister | Sirimavo Bandaranaike |
| Predecessor | Philip Gunawardena |
| Successor | Cyril Mathew |
| Order 2 | 2nd |
| Office 2 | Sri Lankan Ambassador to the Soviet Union |
| Term start 2 | 1961 |
| Term end 2 | 1965 |
| Prime minister 2 | Sirimavo Bandaranaike |
| Predecessor 2 | Gunapala Piyasena Malalasekera |
| Successor 2 | B. F. Perera |
| Order 3 | 7th Speaker of the Parliament |
| Term start 3 | 30 March 1960 |
| Term end 3 | 23 April 1960 |
| Prime minister 3 | Dudley Senanayake |
| Predecessor 3 | Hameed Hussain Sheikh Ismail |
| Successor 3 | R. S. Pelpola |
| Office 4 | Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Defence and External Affairs |
| Term start 4 | 1956 |
| Term end 4 | 1959 |
| Prime minister 4 | S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike |
| Predecessor 4 | V Nalliah |
| Successor 4 | Felix R D Bandaranaike |
| Constituency mp 5 | Bingiriya |
| Parliament 5 | Ceylonese |
| Term start 5 | 1947 |
| Term end 5 | July 1960 |
| Successor 5 | Leelananda Weerasinghe |
| Constituency mp 6 | Katugampola |
| Parliament 6 | Ceylonese |
| Term start 6 | 1965 |
| Term end 6 | 1977 |
| Predecessor 6 | Leelananda Weerasinghe |
| Successor 6 | Gamini Jayawickrama Perera |
| Birth date | 14 August 1913 |
| Birth place | British Ceylon |
| Death date | 10 August 1995 |
| Party | Sri Lanka Freedom Party (1965–1977) |
| Other party | Lanka Sama Samaja Party (–1955) Independent Socialist Party (1955-1959) United National Party (1959) Independent (1960-1965) |
| Spouse | Lolita |
| Alma mater | Ananda College[citation needed] |
Subasinghe Mudiyanselage Tikiri Banda Subasinghe (14 August 1913 – 10 August 1995) was a Sri Lankan statesman. He was the 7th Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka and Sri Lankan Ambassador to the Soviet Union[1][2] He also served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Defence and External Affairs and Minister of Industries and Scientific Affairs.[3]
Life
While studying at the London School of Economics, Subasinghe attended the 5th Pan-African Congress, held in Manchester in October 1945,[4] and helped to organize the All-Colonial Peoples' Conferences held in London around the same time.[5] A founding member of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP), Subasinghe entered parliament contesting the Bingiriya seat at the 1947 Parliamentary general elections.
With the 1956 general elections, he was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of External Affairs and Defence in the S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike cabinet.[1][3] In 1960, he was unanimously elected Speaker of Parliament following the general elections in the short lived UNP led coalition government defeating veteran Speaker Sir. Albert F. Peiris both of whom represented from North Western Province.
Subasinghe was a prominent figure in the Suriya-Mal Movement which became the springboard for the Marxist and anti-imperialist movements in the country. He had two brothers (Vincent and Tudor Subasinghe) and two sisters.[1]
See also
- Sri Lankan Non Career Diplomats
- Tikiri Banda Subasinghe
References
- ^ "T.B. Subasinghe commemoration". Dailynews.lk. 28 August 2009. Retrieved 30 December 2013.
- ^ Rupasinghe, Winston. "Revisiting our Russian friends". Sundayobserver.lk. Archived 30 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 30 December 2013.
- ^ "SUBASINGHE, Tikiri Banda (1913-1995), research papers on". AIM25. Archived from the original on 30 December 2013. Retrieved 30 December 2013.
- ^ Christian Høgsbjerg, Remembering the Fifth Pan-African Congress, African Studies Bulletin, No 77 (Winter 2015/16), pp. 119–139.
- ^ Marika Sherwood, The All Colonial Peoples Conferences in Britain, 1945, African Studies Bulletin, No. 79 (Winter 2017/18), pp. 113–24.