D. B. Jayatilaka

Don Baron Jayatilaka දොන් බාරොන් ජයතිලක
Minister of Home Affairs
Member of Parliament for Kelaniya
Vice-President of the Legislative Council of Ceylon
Leader of the House of the State Council of Ceylon
Founding chief editor of A Dictionary of the Sinhalese Language
Personal details
Born	(1868-02-13)13 February 1868 Waragoda, Kelaniya, Sri Lanka
Died	29 May 1944(1944-05-29) (aged 76) Bangalore, India
Nationality	Ceylonese
Spouse(s)	Mallika Batuwantudawe
Children	Three daughters and Two sons
Occupation	Barrister, politician, Diplomat, Educationalist

Sir Don Baron Jayatilaka (Sinhala:ශ්රිමත් දොන් බාරොන් ජයතිලක; 13 February 1868 – 29 May 1944) known as D.B. Jayatilaka was a Sri Lankan educationalist, statesmen and diplomat. He was Vice-President of the Legislative Council of Ceylon; the Minister for Home Affairs and Leader of the House of the State Council of Ceylon; and Representative of Government of Ceylon in New Delhi.

Born at Waragoda, Kelaniya, he was the eldest male child of Don Daniel Jayatilaka, a government servant, and his wife Liyanage Dona Elisiyana Perera Weerasinha, daughter of oriental scholar, Don Andiris de Silva Batuwantudawe of Werahena. He had two brothers, and two sisters, both of whom died young.

When he was seven years Jayatilaka was sent to the Vidyalankara Pirivena, where he learned Sinhala, Pali and Sanskrit by Ratmalane Sri Dharmaloka Thera. To study English and other subjects in the English medium, he was sent to the local Baptist school from where he was sent to Wesley College in 1881, there he passed the junior and senior Cambridge examinations, travelling daily by cart from Kelaniya to the Pettah.

Jayatilaka graduated from the University of Calcutta with a BA in 1896 and went on to gain a BA in jurisprudence from Jesus College, Oxford in 1913 which was later upgraded to a MA some years later. He was called to the bar as a Barrister from the Lincoln's Inn and became an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Ceylon.

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