Allan Morley Spaar (23 January 1876 – 5 June 1960) was a Ceylonese public servant and local politician, serving as the second Mayor of Kandy between 1940 and 1942.
Allan Morley Spaar | |
|---|---|
| Mayor of Kandy | |
| In office 1940–1942 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 23 January 1876 Colombo, Ceylon |
| Died | 5 June 1960 (aged 84) |
Allan Morley Spaar was born in Colombo, Ceylon on 23 January 1876, the fourth son of Reverend James Alfred Spaar, a Minister of the Wesleyan Mission, and Clara Jane née van der Straaten.[1] His eldest brother, Alfred Eaton (b. 1871), a doctor was awarded an OBE in 1950 for his medical contributions to the community. He attended Kingswood College, Kandy and in later years assisted the school, in drawing plans for a number of buildings and auditing the school's accounts.[2][3]
Spaar married Mary Ethel Jardine on 3 May 1899. They had three daughters: Mary Ethel Helen (1 April 1900); Claribel Nellie (1 February 1902); and Florence Marion Lorna (23 June 1904).[1]
In the 1930s he served as the Superintendent of Minor Roads, Kandy, having worked earlier as the superintendent of works in Ambawela and Dambulla.[4][5]
Spaar was appointed as a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 1938 Birthday Honours, for his services as a relief services worker.[6][7]
In 1939 he was elected to the first Kandy Municipal Council and on 4 April 1940, following the death of Sir Jayatilaka Cudah Ratwatte, he was elected as the Council's second mayor.[8][9][10]
In April 1953 he was the first elected president of the Kandy Friend in Need Society, a non for profit organisation established to care for the elderly in Kandy.[11]
Spaar died on 5 June 1960, at the age of 84.
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edit- ^ a b "Journal of the Dutch Burger Union". Genealogy of the Spaar Family. XXV: 122-123. 1963.
- ^ Blaze, Louis Edmund (1934). K.F.E., the Story of Kingswood, Kandy. Colombo Apothecaries Company. pp. 35–36.
- ^ Toulba, Ali Foad (2000). Ceylon, the Land of Eternal Charm. Asian Educational Services. p. 255. ISBN 9788120614949.
- ^ "The Ceylon Government Gazette" (PDF). Ceylon Government Press. 29 August 1930. p. 1190. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
- ^ Bingham, Percy Moore, ed. (1923). History of the Public Works Department, Ceylon, 1796 to 1913. Vol. 3. H. R. Cottle. p. 174.
- ^ "No. 34518". The London Gazette (Supplement). 7 June 1938. pp. 3685–3709.
- ^ "Ceylon Government Gazette" (PDF). National Archives of Sri Lanka. 29 August 1930. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
- ^ Karunaratna, Nihal (1999). Kandy, Past and Present, 1474-1998 A.D. Central Cultural Fund, Ministry of Religious and Cultural Affairs. p. 310. ISBN 9789556131215.
- ^ "The Ceylon Government Gazette" (PDF). Ceylon Government Press. 10 May 1940: 747.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Siriwardena, N. D. A. Silva Wijayasinghe (1945). A Report on Ceylon Affairs. Ceylon Daily News.
- ^ "Another step towards commitment to society". The Daily News. 11 November 2002. Retrieved 2 April 2021.