Clement Johnston Black

Scottish chartered accountant

Clement Johnston Black (7 May 1888 - 18 December 1967) was a Chartered Accountant and a member of the 1st and 2nd State Councils of Ceylon.

Clement Johnston Black was born on 7 May 1888 in Midbothian, Scotland.^[1] He was educated in Glasgow and travelled to Ceylon in 1913. He was employed as an Accountant at Walker, Sons & Company Limited and as a Company Director on a number of firms including, Colombo Stores Ltd, Ceylon Printers Ltd, Ceylon Theatres Ltd, Ceylon Hotels Ltd, and Nuwara Eliya Hotels Company Ltd.^[2]

Black was appointed to the 1st State Council of Ceylon on 25 March 1935 and was re-appointed to the 2nd State Council in 1936,^[3] where he served on the Executive Committee of Home Affairs.^[2]^[4]

He served as one of the first Company Directors of the Bank of Ceylon, from its initial establishment in 1939 until 1942, when he was replaced by E. P. A. Fernando.^[5]^[6]

Black married Mildred Beryl née Buckman, with whom he had four children; one son and three daughters.^[1]

Black died on 18 December 1967 in Saint Saviour, Jersey.^[7]

References

^ ^a ^b Who's Who of Ceylon - 3rd Edition. 1920. p. 20.
^ ^a ^b Ferguson's Ceylon Directory. Colombo: The Ceylon Observer Press. 1946. pp. 43–44.
^ Members of the Legislatures of Ceylon: 1931-1972. National State Assembly Library. 1972. p. 22.
^ The Colonial Office List, Comprising Historical and Statistical Information Respecting the Colonial Empire, List of Officers Serving in the Colonies, Etc - Issue 205. Colonial Office. 1947. p. 81.
^ Wijesinghe, Mallory E. (1976). The economy of Sri Lanka, 1948-1975. Ranco. p. 88.
^ Expanding horizons: Bank of Ceylon's first 50 years. Bank of Ceylon. 1989. p. 120. ISBN 9789559071006.
^ "The Accountant's Magazine". 72. Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland. 1968: 97. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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Members of the 2nd State Council of Ceylon (1936 (1936)–1947) →

Speaker: Waithilingam Duraiswamy
Chief Secretary: Graeme Tyrrell (1936-1939), Maxwell MacLagan Wedderburn (1939-1940), Guy Stanley Wodeman (1940-1942), Robert Drayton (1942-1946)

Central Province (8)

Abeyratne Ratnayaka
E. A. Nugawela
Senerat Gunewardene
K. Natesa Iyer
George E. de Silva
Bernard Aluwihare
E. W. Abeygunasekera
- M. D. Banda
- Bennet Soysa
S. P. Vythilingam

Eastern Province (2)

Northern Province (5)

North Central Province (1)

H. R. Freeman
- P. B. Bulankulame

North Western Province (5)

Sabaragamuwa Province (5)

Southern Province (7)

Uva Province (3)

Western Province (14)

Appointed (8)

Burgher	George Alfred Henry Wille
European	John William Oldfield Maurice John Cary Evelyn Charles Villiers R. P. Gaddum Evelyn Charles Villiers
Indian Tamil	I. X. Pereira
Muslim	Razik Fareed T. B. Jayah
Unknown	Howard Frank Parfitt Hubert Ernest Newnham Clement Johnston Black Francis Huntly Griffith George Roland Whitby