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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.
He appointed Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles as lieutenant governor of Java. [14] Raffles carried further the administrative centralisation previously initiated by Daendels. He planned to group the regencies of Java into 16 residencies. He ended Dutch administrative methods, liberalised the system of land tenure, and extended trade.
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. A second edition ...
Owing to the institution's growing collections, Governor Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles built new premises behind the Societeit de Harmonie (today Jalan Majapahit No. 3) at the beginning of the 19th century and named it the Literary Society. In 1862 the Dutch East Indies government decided to build a new museum that would not only serve as an ...
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.
[20] [24] Stamford Raffles was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Java. [25] [26] He ended Dutch administrative methods, liberalized the system of land tenure, and extended trade. Britain returned Java and other East Indian possessions to the newly independent United Kingdom of the Netherlands under the terms of the Convention of London in 1814.
Jan Laurens Andries Brandes (1857–1905), Dutch archeologist who collected Hindu statues now in possession of the National Museum of Indonesia. Miss Riboet, a 1930s artist. 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.
Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, the Governor General of British Java (1811 to 1816) had a personal interest in the history, culture, and the antiquity of ancient Java, writing The History of Java, which was published in 1817. [10] During his administration, the ancient ruins of Borobudur, Prambanan and Trowulan came to light. This sparked a wider ...