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First Lady Chair of Colombo Club Source:Island The Colombo Club was inaugurated more than 150 years ago by the British for English and Scottish gentlemen resident in Sri Lanka to meet, relax and recuperate. For close to a 125 years it remained the exclusive habitat for Gentlemen as ladies were precluded from becoming members. In 1995 the first lady member was admitted followed over the years by other ladies. At the last Annual General Meeting of the Club, history was made as the Club elected a lady member to the Chair for the first time. In proposing her name to take over the Chair, Immediate Past Chairman Kumar Jayasuriya stated that ‘the Colombo Club is now poised to create history. In our 150 plus year history, members of the fairer sex were not admitted to membership in the first 125 years of our existence. This injustice was corrected in 1995. ...