E. J. Cooray

Edmund Joseph Cooray, CMG, OBE was a Ceylonese Senator and one-time Minister of Justice in the Second Dudley Senanayake cabinet. He attended the 1960 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference in London on behalf of the Dominion of Ceylon.
He graduated with a BA from the University of London, qualified as a barrister and established his legal practice as an advocate. He was a lecturer for Digest and Voet at the Ceylon Law College. He served as the Commissioner of Co-operative Development and thereafter Chairman, Co-operative Wholesale Establishment. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1952 Birthday Honours and a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 1955 Birthday Honours for his services to the co-operative movement.