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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British statesman Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, the founder of modern Singapore. It is the flagship property of Raffles Hotels & Resorts, and is managed by...
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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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Raffles Hotels & Resorts is a Singaporean chain of luxury hotels which traces its roots to 1887 with the opening of the original Raffles Hotel in Singapore...
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Hospital Raffles Hotel Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research Raffles Place Raffles Holdings Raffles Medical Group Yantai Raffles Shipyard Raffles College...
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Asia. Raffles House: Sir Stamford Raffles built his house on Government Hill on his third and last visit to Singapore. The original house of Raffles was...
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pre-university section of Raffles Institution (RI). Raffles Junior College was merged as the junior college section of Raffles Institution on 1 January...
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serve as the hub of the commercial zone of Singapore in Raffles Town Plan. It was renamed Raffles Place in 1858 and is now the site of a number of major...
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city of Singapore was planned by Sir Stamford Raffles in 1822, and his layout for the city, the Raffles Plan of Singapore, largely survives to this day...
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May Gallery, Edinburgh. Franki Raffles was born in Salford on 17 October 1955. Her parents were Eric and Gillian Raffles (née Posnansky). She had two older...
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Jackson Plan (redirect from Singapore Raffles Plan)
accordance with the vision of Stamford Raffles for Singapore, hence it is also commonly called Raffles Town Plan. Raffles gave his instructions in November...
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had been filmed previously as Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (1917) with John Barrymore as Raffles, and again as Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (1925)...
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Pavilion, Singapore (category Government Houses of the British Empire and Commonwealth)
The Pavilion served as Government House between 1859 and 1861, after Raffles House was demolished to make way for a fort. The Pavilion was built around...
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friend, Bunny Manders, reintroduces Raffles to his sister, Gwen, with whom Raffles had been infatuated a decade ago. Raffles falls in love with her all over...
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2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) "One Raffles Place". SkyscraperPage. One Raffles Place at Structurae "OUB Centre confident of high occupancy...
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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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Singapore. RGS, together with its affiliated school Raffles Institution, offers a six-year Raffles Programme, which allows students to skip the Singapore-Cambridge...
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FRHI Hotels & Resorts (redirect from Raffles International)
oversee the restoration of the historic Raffles Hotel in Singapore and the restructuring of Raffles City, the Raffles hotel company reopened its flagship...
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Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman may refer to: Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (play), from 1903 Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (1917 film), starring John...
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Raffles is a 1977 television series adapted from the A. J. Raffles stories by E. W. Hornung. The stories were adapted by Philip Mackie. Set in Victorian...
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Arthur Conan Doyle, intending Raffles as a "form of flattery." In contrast to Conan Doyle's Holmes and Watson, Raffles and Bunny are "something dark,...
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business district of Singapore. It is located on 30 Raffles Place, in the financial district of Raffles Place. The building is near several buildings and...
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E. W. Hornung (section Introducing Raffles: 1898–1914)
Conan Doyle. The series of Raffles short stories were collected for sale in book form in 1899, and two further books of Raffles short stories followed, as...
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Thomas Oxley on his estate. When Raffles House was demolished to make way for a fort at Fort Canning in 1859, Government House was moved to the Pavilion. The...
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Long Bar in Raffles Hotel, Singapore. It was initially called the gin sling. The drink was created sometime between 1899 and 1915 at Raffles Hotel. Simon...
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Clyde as fictional gentleman thief A. J. Raffles, and Michael Cochrane as Raffles's companion Bunny Manders. Raffles is occasionally rebroadcast on radio...
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Mr. Justice Raffles is a 1909 novel written by E.W. Hornung. It featured his popular character A. J. Raffles a well-known cricketer and gentleman thief...
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William Farquhar (section Further dispute with Raffles)
would only receive official sanction from Raffles three months later in August 1820. Communication with Raffles in Bencoolen and the East India Company...
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bicycles. Raffles becomes a favorite of their unsuspecting landlady. For their next haul, Raffles and Bunny pick out a stockbroker's house. At night,...
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