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V.R. Schockman


Dr V.R. Schockman was a Ceylonese statesman and physician.

Schockman was elected to the Colombo Municipal Council and served as the Mayor of Colombo from 1938-1939. He appointed to the first Senate of Ceylon in 1947 and was a Member of Parliament and was the first President of the Ceylon Olympic and Empire Games Association the preciser to the National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka. He was educated at Royal College, Colombo and at the Ceylon Medical College.


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