Mudaliyar Soosaipillai M. Philip Vanderkoen, JP

Mr. Susepillai Mudaliyar Philip Vanderkoen
Mr. Susepillai Mudaliyar Philip Vanderkoen, son of Susepillai Mudaliyar of Mannar and Mary daughter of Savarimuttu Superanamiam, Mudaliyar of Jaffna was born in 1864, and educated at St. Patrick's Jaffna and St.Joseph's College, Trichinopoly. Upon the completion of his college training he took charge of his father's planting and farming affairs at Mannar, but in 1888 he entered the Government service as Udaiyar (Mohandiram) of Mantac North (Mannar) and general store keeper there in 1894. He became salt storekeeper at Kalpitiya and Puttalam, and in 1902 was made District Mudaliyar of the former place as well as Salt Superintendent there. He is a Justice of the Peace and Unofficial Police Magistrate, and a member of the Agricultural Society and the Public Service Mutual Provident Association. He married, in 1889, Ann daughter of Emmanual Sinnatambi, of the Jaffna Kachcheri and resides at "The Mansion" Kalpitiya. His eldest daughter Gertrude Sophia married Francis Xavier Nicholas of Jaffna. (20th Century Impressions of Ceylon by Arnold Wright, 1999) Recommended by Kumaran Kumarasen.