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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]
Thomas Raffles (17 May 1788 – 18 August 1863) was an English Congregational minister, known as a dominant nonconformist figure at the Great George Street Congregational Church in Liverpool, and as an abolitionist and historian.
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.
Stamford Raffles (1781–1826), British statesman, Lieutenant Governor of Java and founder of Singapore in 1819 Lady Raffles (disambiguation), title of two women married to Stamford Raffles; Stamford Raffles-Flint (1847–1925), onetime Archdeacon of Cornwall; Thomas Raffles (1788–1863), English Congregational minister
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.
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 .
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.
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.