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...
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to Thomas Raffles. Adams, Richard W. (2020). "Thomas Raffles". hymntime.com. The Cyber Hymnal. Retrieved 16 September 2020. Raffles, Thomas Stamford (1864)...
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1819 Thomas Raffles (1788–1863), English Congregational minister Frank Boucher (1901–1977), Canadian ice hockey player and executive nicknamed "Raffles" Raffles...
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after British statesman Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, the founder of modern Singapore. It is the flagship property of Raffles Hotels & Resorts, and is managed...
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Thomas Raffles Davison ARIBA (1853 - 5 May 1937), usually credited as Raffles Davison or T. Raffles Davison, was an English architect, architectural illustrator...
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Sir Thomas Raffles Hughes, KC (28 January 1856 –24 October 1938) was a British barrister. Prominent at the Chancery Bar, he was chairman of the General...
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6. Since 2007, RI and its affiliated school Raffles Girls' School have been offering the six-year Raffles Programme, which allows students to skip the...
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Arthur J. Raffles (usually called A. J. Raffles) is a fictional character created in 1898 by E. W. Hornung, brother-in-law of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,...
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Catholicism and became a Congregationalist, under the influence of the Rev. Thomas Raffles (1788–1863). Sometime after 1860, Enriqueta became companion to Martha...
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names of Raffle Ø or Raffles Ø. The highest point of the island lies at 550m above the sea level. The island hosts a little lake, called Raffles Sø. Its...
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Sophia Hull (redirect from Sophia Raffles)
Sophia, Lady Raffles (née Hull; 5 May 1786 – 12 December 1858) was the second wife of Sir Stamford Raffles, who was a botanist and known as the founder...
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PMID 17819476. S2CID 23649251. Raffles, Sophia (1830). Memoir of the life and public services of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, F.R.S. &c., particularly in...
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for Raffles to return from Bencoolen, Sumatra for four months, in the meantime designed the House in speculation for Raffles' residence use. Raffles, upon...
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Crab-eating macaque (category Taxa named by Thomas Stamford Raffles)
specific epithet fascicularis is Latin for a small band or stripe. Sir Thomas Raffles, who gave the animal its scientific name in 1821, did not specify what...
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tugged by another Jobs' vessel, Beothic. In the same year, Thomas Raffles Job (son of Thomas Bulley Job), Samuel Ernest Job, William Carson Job, and Robert...
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married her. He changed his stage name to Mark Raffles, after the gentleman thief character Arthur Raffles. He performed in various clubs, cruises, corporate...
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around the statue of Raffles such as using camouflage to make the statue 'disappear' into the backdrop of the buildings in Raffles Place on the south bank...
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fictional gentleman thief A. J. Raffles (created in 1898) are narrated by Raffles's companion Bunny Manders, who fagged for Raffles in their school years. C...
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Olivia Mariamne Devenish (redirect from Olivia Mariamne Raffles)
died in 1800, and in 1805 in London to Thomas Stamford Raffles. It was commonly said that her second husband, Raffles, was helped in his career through her...
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1873, the youngest son of Agnes (Brown) and Thomas Raffles Job (1837–1917). T.R. Job was the son of Thomas Bulley Job and Jessie Carson, the daughter of...
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the authority of Napoleonic France. This freedom was consolidated by Thomas Raffles. From 1835 the Catholic Church was affiliated with the colonial state:...
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stopped at Uraga, Kanagawa and took on water, food, and firewood. 1813. Thomas Raffles attempts trade with Japan under a British flag to oust Dutch trade monopoly...
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'Singapura'. In 1818, Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles was appointed Lieutenant Governor of the British colony at Bencoolen. Raffles believed that the British...
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houses, symbolizing two internal conflicts in the kingdom. In 1815, Sir Thomas Raffles, the ruler of Java from 1811–1816, visited the temple and found it in...
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William Farquhar (section Further dispute with Raffles)
Sophia Raffles, the widow of the late Stamford Raffles who had died on 5 July 1826, in her book Memoir of the life and public services of Sir Thomas Stamford...
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1820 to 1824 Collyer edited, with James Baldwin Brown the elder and Thomas Raffles, The Investigator, a quarterly. It attacked Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe...
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and other members of the new Fourth Presidency of India, including Thomas Raffles, later founder of Singapore. His first job was Assistant to the Superintendent...
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Stamford Raffles. By 1811, Raffes was both de facto and de jure Lieutenant-Governor of Java and Travers and Captain Robert C. Garnham were Raffles' aides-de-camp...
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It was named in 1818 by explorer Phillip Parker King after Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, the founder of Singapore. It is about 10 km long north to south...
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Rylands Library. Cooke also sorted an autograph collection created by Thomas Raffles for Enriqueta Rylands. In 1901 Cooke moved to Cardiff where she lectured...
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