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Date transcribed2011-08-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Raffles    
First Name(s)  Thomas Stamford    
Titles, Honours, etc.  Sir    
Birth Year  1781    
Death Year  1826    
Entry  Son of Captain Benjamin Raffles : born July 5, 1781 : educated at Hammersmith : appointed at 14 a clerk in the India House : sent to Pulo Penang in 1805 as Assistant Secretary in the E. I. Co.'s service : Secretary, 1807 : on his suggestion, Lord Minto embarked on the Java expedition, 1811 : at its close he was made Lieutenant- Governor of Java : reformed the administration with energy : appointed also Resident at Bencoolen in Sumatra, 1813 : charges made against him by Gillespie (q.v.) held to be groundless : Raffles recalled in 1815 and Java restored to the Dutch : he wrote the History of Java, 817 : knighted, 1817 : Governor of Bencoolen, 1818 : proposed the occupation of Singapore, which was permitted, 1819 : he greatly developed it, and founded a College there : went home in 1824, but lost, his ship taking fire, all his valuable scientific collections, the result of his industry in zoology, philology, natural history, anthropology, etc. : was the founder of the Zoological Society of London, in 1825-6, and its first President : was F.R.S. : LL.D : and belonged to learned Societies: died July 5, 1826 : his statue is in Westminster Abbey.     
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