A. J. R. de Soysa

Following his father's unexpected death in August 1890, de Soysa returned to Ceylon to manage his father's extensive tea, rubber and coconut estates. In 1898 he was appointed to the Colombo Harbor Board and in 1911 he became the second member to be appointed to the Low Country Sinhalese seat of the Legislative Council of Ceylon.^[5] He was appointed to the 'Salaries Commission of 1912' and paid workers from his private funds when the government refused to pay wages for the week-long railway strike.^[6]

De Soysa was a proprietor of the Ceylon Morning Leader newspaper.^[7]

On 4 February 1892 he married Mary Margaret de Silva of Henley House (now St. Bridget's Convent, Colombo).^[2][8] In 1895 he built the Chevaliar Jusey de Silva ward at the Lady Ridgeway Hospital for Children and in 1913 inaugurated the Ceylon School for the Deaf and Blind, Ratmalana. In 1910, he built the stately mansion Lakshmigiri.