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Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles was born on () 5 July 1781 on board the ship Ann, off the coast of Port Morant, Jamaica, [2] to Captain Benjamin Raffles (1739, London – 23 November 1811, Deptford) and Anne Raffles (née Lyde) (1755 – 8 February 1824, London). [1]
Portrait of Stamford Raffles by George Francis Joseph, 1817.Raffles sat for the painting while in London to oversee publication of the book. The first edition was limited to 900 copies and contained 64 etched or aquatint plates, of which 10 were hand-coloured aquatints by William Daniell depicting Javanese life and costume.
Portrait of Stamford Raffles is an 1817 portrait painting by the English artist George Francis Joseph depicting the British colonial official Sir Stamford Raffles. [1] [2] He had served as Governor of the Dutch East Indies during their occupation by Britain in the Napoleonic Wars and was later credited as the founder of Singapore.
Raffles's Landing Site is the location where tradition holds that Sir Stamford Raffles landed in on 28 January 1819. The site is located at Boat Quay within the Civic District, in the Downtown Core of the Central Area , Singapore 's central business district .
Tanguy's revision of the death toll was based on Zollinger's work on Sumbawa for several months after the eruption and on Thomas Raffles's notes. [9] Tanguy pointed out that there may have been additional victims on Bali and East Java because of famine and disease.
The establishment of a British trading post in Singapore in 1819 by Sir Stamford Raffles led to its founding as a British colony in 1824. This event has generally been understood to mark the founding of colonial Singapore, [1] a break from its status as a port in ancient times during the Srivijaya and Majapahit eras, and later, as part of the Sultanate of Malacca and the Johor Sultanate.
Raffles, Sophia (1830). Memoir of the Life and Public Services of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, F.R.S. &c: Particularly in the Government of Java, 1811–1816, and of Bencoolen and Its Dependencies, 1817–1824; with Details of the Commerce and Resources of the Eastern Archipelago, and Selections from His Correspondence. J. Murray.
Olivia Mariamne Raffles (died November 23, 1814), the first wife of British governor general Thomas Stamford Raffles; Pieter Erberveld; Soe Hok Gie, an Indonesian activist. Monsignor Walterus Jacobus Staal. S.J, Catholic Bishop; Willem Frederik Stutterheim, an archeologist who wrote a book about the Hindu hero Rama.