Harold Herath Explained

Honorific-Prefix:Hon. Deshabandu
Harold Herath
Office:Minister of Foreign Affairs
Term Start:1991
Term End:1993
President:Ranasinghe Premadasa
Primeminister:Dingiri Banda Wijetunga
Predecessor:Ranjan Wijeratne
Successor:Abdul Cader Shahul Hameed
Office2:Minister of Justice
Term Start2:1993
Term End2:1994
President2:Dingiri Banda Wijetunga
Primeminister2:Ranil Wickremasinghe
Predecessor2:Abdul Cader Shahul Hameed
Successor2:G. L. Peiris
Office3:Minister of Coconut Development
Parliament4:Sri Lankan
Constituency Mp4:Puttalam District
Term Start4:1989
Term End4:2000
Birth Date:1930 3, df=yes
Birth Place:Nattandiya, British Ceylon
(now in Sri Lanka)
Death Place:Colombo, Sri Lanka
Party:United National Party
Otherparty:United National Front
Spouse:Gwen Herath
Children:3

Deshabandu James Edward Herath Herald[1] known as Harold Herath (10 March 1930 – 31 August 2007)[2] was a senior Sri Lankan politician and Cabinet Minister. Herath was most notably Minister of Foreign Affairs under President Ranasinghe Premadasa from 1991 to 1993. He entered Parliament winning the Nattandiya electorate in the Puttalam Electoral District 1977, and held his seat until 2000 retiring not contesting the 2001 parliamentary election.[3] He has also held the portfolios of Minister of Justice and Minister of Coconut Development.

In 2005 Harold Herath was conferred the national honour and title Deshabandu by President Chandrika Kumaratunga.[4] Harold Herath died on 31 August 2007 after a brief illness, he was 77.[5] He was married to Gwen Herath, a former Provincial Council member and President of the Women's Cricket Association of Sri Lanka (WCASL), and was father to three children.[6]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Result of Parliamentary General Election 1989. Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. dead. https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20090304101343/http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pdf/Results_1989%20GENERAL%20ELECTION.PDF. 2009-03-04.
  2. Web site: Index He-Hn.
  3. Web site: Gunewardene. Prasad. National List to the rescue of SB. Island. 10 July 2013.
  4. Web site: Highest national award for Kadir, Clarke. Sundaytimes. 10 July 2013.
  5. Web site: Harold Herath no more. The Sunday Leader. 10 July 2013. 19 January 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130119041741/http://www.thesundayleader.lk/archive/20070902/news.htm. dead.
  6. Web site: Herath dies. Island. 10 July 2013.