Richard Aluwihare

Sir Richard Aluwihare KCMG, CBE, CCS, JP
12th Inspector General of Police (Sri Lanka)
In office 1947–1955
Preceded by	Ranulph Bacon
Succeeded by	Osmund de Silva
4th Sri Lankan High Commissioner to India
In office 1957–1963
Preceded by	Edwin Wijeyeratne
Succeeded by	Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe
Personal details
Born	23 May 1895
Died	22 December 1976
Spouse(s)	Lucille née Moonemalle
Children	Phyllis Sita, Ena
Profession	Civil servant, Diplomat

Sir Richard Aluwihare, KCMG, CBE, CCS, JP (23 May 1895 – 22 December 1976) was a Sri Lankan civil servant and diplomat. He was the first Ceylonese Inspector General of Police and Ceylon's High Commissioner to India.

Richard Aluwihare was born on 23 May 1895 the son of T. B. Aluwihare and Panebokke Tikiri Kumarihamy. His younger brother, Bernard (1902 – 1961), was a Sri Lankan Cabinet Minister and Member of Parliament from Matale. Aluwihare was educated at Christ Church College, Matale and Trinity College, Kandy. At Trinity College he was a Senior Prefect, won the Ryde Gold Medal and the Trinity Lion for cricket in 1915. With the outbreak of World War I, he enlisted in the British Army serving in the Middlesex Regiment at Flanders, 1916 and was severely wounded in the Battle of the Somme. He returned to Ceylon in 1920. He was the Secretary to the Kandyan deputation on constitutional reforms that was sent to England.

Aluwihare joined the Ceylon Civil Service, where he served as Assistant Director of Agriculture, Assistant Registrar Cooperative Societies in 1922, Acting Police Magistrate, Dandagamuwa in 1923, Police Magistrate in Point Pedro and Panadura in 1924, Second Landing Surveyor, HM Customs in 1926, Commissioner of Requests, Additional District Judge, Additional Police Magistrate, Kandy, Government Agent of Kegalle and Settlement Officer in 1929. In 1931 he was appointed District Judge of Nuwara Eliya. In 1934 was transferred to the General Treasury. In December 1941 he was appointed as acting Government Agent for Anuradhapura.

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