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Stamford Raffles. Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles FRS FRAS (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 was involved in the capture of the Indonesian island of Java from the ...
Publication place. England. Pages. xlviii + 479. OCLC. 741754581. Balinese Raja, in Thomas Stamford Raffles's The History of Java, 1817. The History of Java is a book written by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles and published in 1817. It describes the history of the island of Java from ancient times.
History of Singapore. 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 ...
Huang, Jianli. "Stamford Raffles and the'founding'of Singapore: The politics of commemoration and dilemmas of history." Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 91.2 (2018): 103-122 online. Kratoska. Paul H. The Japanese Occupation of Malaya and Singapore, 1941–45: A Social and Economic History (NUS Press, 2018). pp. 446.
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. This building was later rebuilt as a neoclassical-styled Government House as the residence of subsequent colonial governors, but it ...
Raffles's Landing Site. Coordinates: 1°17′16″N 103°51′2″E. The office towers at Raffles Place on the south bank of the Singapore River serve as a backdrop against Sir Stamford Raffles 's statue located at Raffles' Landing Site on the river's opposite bank. Raffles's Landing Site is the location where tradition holds that Sir Stamford ...
The early history of Singapore refers to its pre-colonial era before 1819, when the British East India Company led by Stamford Raffles established a trading settlement on the island and set in motion the history of modern Singapore. Prior to 1819, the island was known by several names; an early reference may be in the 2nd century work by ...
Raffles Singapore is a historic luxury hotel at 1 Beach Road, in Singapore.It was established by Armenian hoteliers, the Sarkies Brothers, in 1887.The hotel was named after British statesman Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, the founder of modern Singapore.