How to Pronounce J. P. de Fonseka
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Apr 29, 1897 Died on 26 Nov 1948 (aged 51)
Sri Lankan essayist
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About J. P. De Fonseka
- Joseph Peter de Fonseka (1897 - 1948) was a Sri Lankan essayist and editor.
- His essays were noted for their trenchant humour and defence of Roman Catholic values, in the style of G.
- K.
- Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc.
- He was a friend and collaborator of the former. Fonseka worked as a teacher of English in St.
- Joseph's Catholic College, Ceylon (as Sri Lanka was then known), a school he had attended as a youth, when he captained the cricket team.
- He trained as a lawyer, but did not practice, preferring to teach and write.
