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Gate Mudaliyar James Edward Corea was a Ceylonese colonial-era headman. ==Early life== Corea was born in Chilaw, on the west coast of Sri Lanka, on 2 December 1865. His father was Johannes Christoffel Corea who was a Mudaliyar of the Chilaw District. In the 1870s J.E.Corea was educated at one of the leading educational institutions in the country, the Colombo Academy. In 1888 he married Frances Eleanor Terentia, daughter of D.C Ameresekera, Proctor of the Supreme Court, Kurunegala and they had ten children. They came from an Anglican Christian background. Roper Lethbridge in 'The Golden Book of India'; a genealogical and biograhical dictionary of the ruling princes, chiefs, nobles, and other personages, titled or decorated, of the Indian empire, with an appendix for Ceylon, written in 1900, mentions James Edward Corea: 'COREA, Abhayaratna Gunasekara Wi-kramasundara Wijayasekere, James Edward, Gate Mudaliyar; born 1866. His father was Mudaliyar Johannes Christopher Corea, Mudaliyar of Chilaw,who was son of Mudaliyar Abraham Corea, brother of Mudaliyar Simon Corea.'〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/roper-lethbridge/the-golden-book-of-india-a-genealogical-and-biograhical-dictionary-of-the-rulin-hci/page-60-the-golden-book-of-india-a-genealogical-and-biograhical-dictionary-of-the-rulin-hci.shtml )〕 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「James Edward Corea」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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