Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka initiated, at the country's Parliament, a formal revocation of Robert Brownrigg's Gazette Notification - under which participants of the Great Rebellion of 1817–18 had been condemned as "traitors" and their properties confiscated. Brownrigg's Gazette Notification was declared null and void, and all those he branded as "traitors" were declared to be National Heroes of Sri Lanka. A National Declaration was awarded on their behalf to their descendants on Republic Day of Sri Lanka, 22 May. References Sources Reiter, Jacqueline. The Late Lord: The Life of John Pitt–2nd Earl of Chatham. Casemate Publishers, 2017. |- |- |- 1758 births 1833 deaths Royal Norfolk Regiment officers British Army generals British Army commanders of the Napoleonic Wars Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath Governors of British Ceylon People of the Kingdom of Kandy General Officers Commanding, Ceylon 19th-century British military personnel Irish soldiers in the British Army People from County Wicklow