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GENTLEMAN PLANTER PAR EXCELLENCE The curtain came down on the Life of Wickrema De Alwis on 20th October at four score and seven, leaving  friends and family to reflect on the qualities of a man that made him not just one of the finest Tea Planters the Industry had known but also a true Gentleman in every sense of the word.  My association with Wick as he was fondly known goes back to the mid seventies when as a young Executive at George Steuarts, then renowned for managing Plantations , I was assigned the awesome task of handling the desk of the Company’s most prestigious  charge viz ‘ The Standard Tea Company ” which comprised of six remarkable Estates , three in Uda Pussellawa and the balance in  Bogawantalawa / Lindula. Wick was Superintendent of one of them, viz  Kotiyagala Group in Bogawantalawa, a highly profitable property  with a popular ...