Howard Frank Parfitt
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Howard Frank Parfitt (1888–1957) was a British tea planter, businessman and politician in colonial Ceylon.[1][2]
Howard Frank Parfitt was born in 1888 in Essex, the son of Frank Chapman Parfitt and Alice.
Parfitt arrived in Ceylon in 1910[3] and by 1919 was appointed as a Director of Mackwoods Limited, a major Ceylonese tea producer.
On 7 January 1926 Parfitt served as an inaugural board member of the Tea Research Institute of Ceylon.
Parfitt was appointed as a nominated member of the 2nd State Council of Ceylon on 2 March 1936,[1][4][5] where he served on the Executive Committee for Home Affairs.[6] He resigned from the State Council on 18 May 1943.[1]
He died in 1957, at the age of 69, in Surrey, England.
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