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Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles FRS FRAsS (5 July 1781 – 5 July 1826) [1] [2] was a British colonial official who served as the governor of the Dutch East Indies between 1811 and 1816 and lieutenant-governor of Bencoolen between 1818 and 1824.
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 .
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.
On 22 March 1818, Sir Stamford Raffles became the Lieutenant-Governor of Bencoolen, now known as Bengkulu, in Indonesia. [15] In the autumn of that same year, in order to counter the Dutch influence in the region, he went to India and successfully persuaded the governor there to support him in finding a suitable location in the southeast of the ...
Following the sinking of the Fame, at least two busts of Stamford Raffles were commissioned through a plaster copy that Francis Leggatt Chantrey had kept. One of those commissions was for a marble bust of Raffles created by sculptor E. Roscoe Mullins for the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) presented by Reverend William Charles Flint with a commemorative plaque in 1877.
Raffles House is a single-storey building built on the Fort Canning Hill, Singapore.The original building was a wood and atap structure built in 1822 that was used as a place of residence by Sir Stamford Raffles.
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.
The society was founded in April 1826 by Sir Stamford Raffles, the Marquess of Lansdowne, Lord Auckland, Sir Humphry Davy, Robert Peel, Joseph Sabine, Nicholas Aylward Vigors along with various other nobility, clergy, and naturalists. [3] [4] Raffles