Richard Stanley Pelpola (21 November 1898 - 19 July 1971) was the Speaker of the Parliament of Ceylon and a member of Parliament in the cabinet of S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike .[ 1] He resigned from his position of speaker in 1964[ 2] Later in his life he was appointed Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Malaysia. Pelpola died in Kuala Lumpur in 1971.[ 3] He had fourteen children.
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^ Attygalle, Randima. "I will never call it a day" . Nation.lk. Retrieved 10 August 2013 .
^ "Mr. Speaker in Sri Lanka". Journal of Constitutional and Parliamentary Studies . 7 (2–4). Institute of Constitutional and Parliamentary Studies: 87. 1973.
^ "Envoy's body is flown home" . The Straits Times. Retrieved 10 August 2013 .