Please answer the following question: What key details about william de silva  can be extracted from the following bio?  Bio: peduru hewage `` william '' de silva -lrb- 8 december 1908 -- 30 july 1988 -rrb- was a 20th-century ceylonese politician with marxist/trotskyist leanings . p. h. william de silva was born at kahatapitiya in batapola , ambalangoda , ceylon , to a wealthy land-owning family . he received his elementary education at batapola mixed school and secondary education at st john 's college , panadura , richmond college , galle , and ananda college , colombo . he studied for one year at the university college colombo -lrb- now the university of colombo -rrb- and then traveled to england for further studies at university college , oxford . while in england , william de silva joined the india league and a marxist study group with other ceylonese students in london . he then returned to ceylon and joined the lanka sama samaja party -lrb- lssp -rrb- . during world war ii , he was an anti-war movement leader and was imprisoned in bogambara prison and badulla prison in sri lanka -lrb- 1943 -- 45 -rrb- . he became a ceylonese member of parliament in 1947 and 1953 . he was leader of the all-ceylon estate workers union and vice president of the all-ceylon congress of samasamaja youth leagues . he separated from the lssp in october 1953 and joined the viplavakari lanka sama samaja party -lrb- vllsp -rrb- . he was the founding leader of mahajana eksath peramuna -lrb- mep -rrb- . he was cabinet minister of industries and fisheries in s. w. r. d. bandaranaike 's slfp-mep coalition government -lrb- 1956 -- 59 -rrb- . he became a member of parliament in 1960 and was vice president of the sri lanka freedom party -lrb- slfp -rrb- . in 1970 , he became the ceylon high commissioner to canada . de silva died aged 80 .
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- other names is peduru de silva hewage william de silva , p. h. william- party is lanka sama samaja party -lrb- lssp -rrb-- death date is 30 july 1988- occupation is cabinet minister , ceylon high commissioner- birth date is 08 december 1908- name is william de silva- color is black- background is #ffd 068- birth place is sri lanka- nationality is sri lanka sri lankan- alma mater is ananda of oxford college , university college , colombo , university