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Shortly after the establishment of a British settlement in Singapore, one of Raffles’s immediate concerns was the formation of an institution of higher learning to educate the sons of the Malay chiefs; to teach the native languages to officers of the East India Company; and to collect the literature on the traditions, and laws and customs of ...
Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles FRS FRAS (5 July 1781 – 5 July 1826) 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.
Sir Stamford Raffles was a British East Indian administrator and founder of the port city of Singapore (1819), who was largely responsible for the creation of Britain’s Far Eastern empire. He was knighted in 1816.
Jan 31, 2019 · In 1830, William Farquhar (1774–1839) wrote to The Asiatic Journal explaining why he was due “at least a large share” of the credit in forming Singapore. 1 Yet, it is Stamford Raffles (1781–1826) alone who is hailed as the founder of Singapore.
Two hundred years ago, an important treaty was negotiated by the Englishman Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, leading to the establishment of the British colony of Singapore. The foundation of modern Singapore and the actions of the British Empire marked a new chapter for this southern Asian island which grew into a commercial and cosmopolitan hub ...
His main belief was the importance of establishing a British free-trade port in Southeast Asia to facilitate connections between Britain's Indian colonies and its trade interests in China. Java's location was ideal, and Raffles was strongly in favour of Britain keeping the island as a colony.
One figure who was featured prominently in this act of national remembering is Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826), commonly known as the 'founder' of modern Singapore. The government commissioned two works around the polymarble statue of Raffles.
