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Stamford Raffles
British colonial official (1781–1826)
Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley RafflesFRS FRAS (5 July 1781 – 5 July 1826)[1][2] 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 Java in 1817, describing the history of the island from ancient times.[3] The Rafflesia flowers were named after him.[4]
Raffles also played a role in further establishing the British Empire's reach in East and Southeast Asia.
He secured control over the strategically located Singapore from local rulers in 1819 to secure British access along the Strait of Singapore and the nearby seas in the region, particularly the Indian Ocean and the South C
