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Major Bevis Bawa (26 April 1909 – 18 September 1992) was a Sri Lankan artist. He was also one of the most renowned landscape architects in Sri Lanka and the Aide-de-camp to four Governors of Ceylon.〔(BAWA – Family #1251 )〕〔(Garden of Brief )〕〔(Bevis Bawa on Bevis Bawa’s ‘Brief’ )〕 ==Biography== Bevis Bawa was born on 26 April 1909 in Colombo, the eldest son of Justice Benjamin William Bawa (1865–1923), a wealthy and successful lawyer, of Muslim and English parentage, and Bertha Marianne née Schrader (1876–1946), who was of mixed German, Scottish and Sinhalese descent. His younger brother was Geoffrey Bawa (1919–2003), regarded as being one of the most important and influential Asian architects of the twentieth century. Bawa was educated at Royal College Colombo, but had to leave school at seventeen when his father died while in England. Bevis took up the management of the family estates. In 1929 Bawa was commissioned as an officer in the Ceylon Light Infantry, a reservist regiment of the Ceylon Defence Force, later gaining the rank of Captain. In 1934, Bawa was appointed as Aide-de-camp to Sir Reginald Edward Stubbs and went on to serve on the staff of Sir Andrew Caldecott, Sir Henry Monck-Mason Moore and Lord Soulbury until 1950. Bawa died at the age of 89 on 18 September 1992 at his home. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bevis Bawa」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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