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2 unusual facts about Thurstan College


Abraham Kovoor

After working briefly as a junior professor in Kerala, he spent the rest of his life in Sri Lanka, teaching botany in several colleges before retiring in 1959 as a teacher at Thurstan College, Colombo.

Thurstan College

A new school was opened by then Minister of Education by Major E. A. Nugawela on January 11, 1950 named as the Government Senior School at Thurstan Road (now known as Kumarathunga Munidasa Mawatha), on one side was the old Royal College Colombo established in 1835 and on the other side was the University of Ceylon which was of established in 1922.



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