What is John Kotelawala?
{{Infobox Prime Minister | honorific-prefix = [[General officer|General]] [[The Right Honourable]] | name = Sir John Lionel Kotelawala | honorific-suffix = [[Order of the British Empire|KBE]], [[Order of the Companions of Honour|CH]], [[Doctor of Laws|LLD]] | image = John Kotelawala (1951).jpg | order = [[List of Prime Ministers of Sri Lanka|Prime Minister of Sri Lanka]] | term_start = 1953 | term_end = 1959 | monarch = [[Elizabeth II]] | predecessor = [[Dudley Senanayake]] | successor = [[S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike]] | birth_date = {{Birth date|1897|04|04|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Ceylon]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1980|10|2|1896|4|4|df=y}} | death_place = [[Colombo]], [[Sri Lanka]] | party = [[United National Party]] | spouse = | alma_mater = [[Christ's College, Cambridge]],<br>[[Royal College, Colombo]] | profession = [[Politician]], [[Soldier]], [[Plantation|Planter]] | rank = [[General officer|General]] | branch = [[Ceylon Defence Force]] | unit = <!-- Commented out: [[File:SLLI Crest.gif|25px]] -->[[Ceylon Light Infantry]] | allegiance = [[Ceylon]] | serviceyears = 23 Years | signature = | website = | footnotes = |}} [[General (Sri Lanka)|General]] '''Sir''' '''John Lionel Kotelawala''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|CH|KBE|KStJ|PC}} ({{lang-si|ශ්‍රිමත් ජොන් ලයනල් කොතලාවල}}; 4 April 1897 – 2 October 1980) was a Sri Lankan [[soldier]] and [[politician]]. He was the third Prime Minister of [[Ceylon]] from 1953 to 1956. == Early life and family == [[File:John Kotelawala Senior (1865-1908).jpg|thumbnail|left|John Kotelawala Senior|287x287px]] [[File:Royal College Colombo main building.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Young Kotelawala attended [[Royal College, Colombo]].]] [[File:Christs College First Court.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Sir John Kotelawala attended [[Christ's College, Cambrid