RICHARD HERMON Archives

When St. Peters of Adelaide toured Ceylon in January 1928-by Michael Roberts Source:Thuppahis St. Peters College in Adelaide is an elite boys public school that has produced several Prime Ministers of South Australia and schooled many prominent figures in Australian life. The school’s cricket team chose to tour Ceylon in the month of January 1928 and played matches against Royal College, S. Thomas’ College and Trinity; and also against a team of planters at the grounds in Darrawella in the hill country. Image Source:Thuppahis The scoring book is part of the school archives and so too a photograph of the whole squad intermingled with the Thomian squad. This picture can be considered a “treasure” because of the personnel embraced therein: notably Canon de Saram (then Vice-Principal of S. Thomas); one Dudley S. Senanayake (who became one Ceylon’s Prime Ministers); Richard Hermon (captaining S. Thomas); Robert Senanayake (later a President of the Board of Control for Ceylon Cricket in the 1950s ...

The Power of Privilege: Illegitimate Progeny in the Plantations of Ceylon and Beyond – By Michael Roberts An EMAIL MEMO from RICHARD HERMON to His Good Friend ERROL FERNANDO, Circa 9 December 2022*++* Dear Errol, As a Eurasian myself on both sides, since both my Grandfathers were Brits and both my Grandmothers were Sinhalese: one Kandyan from Welimada, and one Low-Country from Baddegama to whom both my grandfathers were married. I also take exception to some “Burghers” looking down upon us with disdain. specially very dark skinned “Burghers” who claim to be of “pure “Dutch extraction when queried as to the reason for their dark skin colour, The explanation is invariably that they have spent a long time in the tropics and have been under the sun!!!.. What a load of codswallop!!!! Now however the Burghers consider Eurasians to also be Burghers!! Actually, many Burghers could more accurately be termed ...