Lionel Wendt, Count de Mauny, David Paynter and Raman-by Hugh Karunanayake Source:Island Image Source:Island The self styled “Count”. De Mauny was born as Maurice Marie Talavande on March 21, 1886. The circumstances under which he left for Ceylon were controversial, some writers suggesting that he was compelled to leave France for misbehaviour with young men in his charge. None of these rumours have ever been established, and to this day remain as rumours. According to William Warren, author of the book “Tropical Asian Style”, de Mauny was first invited to Ceylon in 1912 by SIr Thomas Lipton the tea magnate. He followed that up with several subsequent visits concluding with his purchase of an island off the coast of Weligama, which was only a rocky outcrop one and a half acres in extent and overrun with weeds. He paid Rs 250 for the island, and soon settled down to ...
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LIONEL WENDT, COUNT DE MAUNY, DAVID PAYNTER, AND RAMAN – By HUGH KARUNANAYAKE The self styled “Count”. De Mauny was born as Maurice Marie Talavande on 21 March 1886. The circumstances under which he left for Ceylon were controversial, some writers suggesting that he was compelled to leave France for misbehaviour with young men in his charge. None of there rumours have ever been established, and to this day remain as rumours. According to William Warren author of the book ”Tropical Asian Style”, de Mauny was first invited to Ceylon in 1912 by SIr Thomas Lipton the tea magnate. He followed that up with several subsequent visits concluding with his purchase of an island off the coast of Weligama, which was only a rocky outcrop one and a half acres in extent and overrun with weeds. He paid Rs 250 for the island, and soon settled down to design, construct, ...
Jan 19, 2024
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Tagged Count, David Paynter, RAMAN HUGH KARUNANAYAK
Alex Lazarus, and the missing school bell – by GEORGE BRAINE The year would have been 1964 or 65. At Trinity, the end of each class period was signaled by the ringing sound of a large bell which hung on a low branch of a pine tree above the quadrangle. The bell ringer, I’ll call him Arnolis, was a rotund man who wore an oversized shirt and a sarong worn high above his waist, held up by a thick black belt. At the end of each period, Arnolis would approach, carefully put on filthy ear plugs he kept hidden on a nearby crevice, and beat the bell with a metal rod. The noise rang out throughout the upper school, and the boys would stream out of class rooms. All was well. Then, one morning, the bell was missing. Gone without a clue. Chaos reigned. That was a time when few teachers, let alone students, had wristwatches. Without the ...
May 4, 2022
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Tagged Alex Lazarus, David Paynter, Kandyan architecture
Max Gerreyn draws a sketch of the Queen and Irangani This pencil lined sketch of Irangani as Tea Queen 1967, represented Ceylon at the Glasgow Centenary wholesale Cooperative Stores declared open by her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth, when Irangani had the opportunity of chatting with the Queen for over 20 minutes, just the two of them, was drawn by no other person than our famous cartoonist in Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) who lives now in Perth. He learnt the art of drawing in his young days from his school art master K.S.Perera, Mudaliyar ACGS Amarasekera and David Paynter. Whilst employed at the Bank of Ceylon he free-lanced as an artist-cartoonist for the English media newspapers, and contributed a daily and a weekend strip exclusively for the ‘Sun’ newspaper for over fifteen years. ...
Sep 20, 2020
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Tagged David Paynter, K.S.Perera, Max Gerreyn, Mudaliyar
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