Editing Openai/69334603-e204-8007-8688-c342412e0714 (section)

===== - The ship that took Sri Wickrama Rajasinghe into exile was HMS ''Cornwallis'', commanded by Captain O’Brien (often written O’Brian/O'Brien). Sunday Times<ref>{{cite web|title=Sunday Times|url=https://www.sundaytimes.lk/141228/plus/a-royal-invitation-to-supper-on-board-the-hms-cornwallis-128642.html|publisher=Sunday Times|access-date=2025-12-05}}</ref> =====
* The British official in charge of escorting the deposed king from Colombo to India was William Granville, a young civil servant. Manchester Hive<ref>{{cite web|title=Manchester Hive|url=https://www.manchesterhive.com/view/9781526113429/9781526113429.00006.xml?print=&result=55&rskey=4MJEdB|publisher=Manchester Hive|access-date=2025-12-05}}</ref>
* Granville kept a diary of the voyage, and modern historians explicitly say that “Granville’s diary recounts the voyage” and use it as a primary source. Manchester Hive<ref>{{cite web|title=Manchester Hive|url=https://www.manchesterhive.com/view/9781526113429/9781526113429.00006.xml?print=&result=55&rskey=4MJEdB|publisher=Manchester Hive|access-date=2025-12-05}}</ref>

According to the entry on William Granville, his diary of the voyage with Sri Vikrama Rajasinha was published in 1830, together with a small collection of his poems (Poems on Ceylon). Wikipedia<ref>{{cite web|title=Wikipedia|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Granville_%28civil_servant%29|publisher=en.wikipedia.org|access-date=2025-12-05}}</ref>

More recently:
* A Sri Lankan edition/translation has appeared: - Grantha.lk advertises a book essentially described as Granville’s journal/diary of the exile of Sri Vikrama Rajasinha, noting that the original journal is valuable but long out of print, and that this new edition (with Sinhala translation) is being brought out many decades later. grantha.lk<ref>{{cite web|title=grantha.lk|url=https://grantha.lk/cartquickpro/catalog_product/view/id/17663|publisher=grantha.lk|access-date=2025-12-05}}</ref> - A 2025 blog post lists “Granville’s Diary: on the exile of Sri Vickrama Rajasinha, with its Sinhala translation” by N. T. Senevipala (Samanthie Publishers, Ja-Ela, ISBN 978-624-201-075-5). vijayadharani.blogspot.com<ref>{{cite web|title=vijayadharani.blogspot.com|url=https://vijayadharani.blogspot.com/|publisher=vijayadharani.blogspot.com|access-date=2025-12-05}}</ref>

So there is a published diary from the voyage, but it belongs to William Granville, the escorting civil servant, not the captain.