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Thomas Stamford Raffles
Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles 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 Dutch during the Napoleonic Wars. It was returned under the Anglo–Dutch Treaty of 1824. He also wrote The History of Jav…
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politics · British colonial official (1781–1826) · botanist · ornithologist · politician · traveler · botanical collector · abolitionist · scientific collector · colonial administrator · also Thomas Stamford Raffles, Stamford Raffles, Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, Raffles, Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles, Stamford, Sir Raffles
Born 6 July 1781 · Died 5 July 1826 · Q130327
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1887· 1 entry
But the actual whereabouts of his body was not known until 1914, when it was found in a vault
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1826· 1 entry
Died 1826-07-05.
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1823· 1 entry
Raffles drafted a series of administrative regulations for Singapore that aimed to govern Singapore in a fair manner, but also reflected his stance on various moral and social issues
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1819· 1 entry
To secure British access along the Strait of Singapore and the nearby seas in the region, particularly the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea
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1817· 3 entries
Describing the history of the island from ancient times
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Raffles wrote and published The History of Java, describing the history of the island from ancient times as well as its geography, flora, and fauna
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Raffles was created a Knight Bachelor by the Prince Regent George IV, whose daughter, Princess Charlotte, was particularly close to him
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1815· 1 entry
Left again for England shortly before the island of Java was returned to control of the Netherlands following the Napoleonic Wars, under the terms of the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814
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1811· 1 entry
After the annexation of the Kingdom of Holland by France during the Napoleonic Wars, Raffles had no choice but to leave the country
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1805· 1 entry
Was sent to Penang Island in British Malaya, starting his long association with Southeast Asia
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1804· 1 entry
The 23-year-old Raffles married Olivia Mariamne Devenish, a widow 10 years his senior, who was formerly married to Jacob Cassivelaun Fancourt, an assistant surgeon in Madras, who had died in 1800
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1800· 1 entry
It caused his family considerable hardship
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1781· 1 entry
Born 1781-07-06.
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