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Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles (born 6 July 1781 on the ship Ann off the coast of Jamaica – died 5 July 1826 in London, England) was the founder of the city (now country) of Singapore, and is one of the best-known of the many Britons who created the largest empire the world has ever seen.

Little is known of Raffles' parents. His father suddenly passed away when he was 14, leaving his family in debt. He immediately started working as a clerk in London for the British East India Company, the quasi-government trading company that shaped much of England's overseas conquests. In 1805 he was sent to what is now Penang in the country of Malaysia, then called Prince of Wales Island, starting a long association with southeast Asia.

Raffles was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Java in 1811 and promoted to Governor of Sumatra shortly thereafter, during the period Britain took administrative control of the Dutch colonies while the Netherlands were preoccupied with the Napoleonic Wars in Europe. During his Governorship, Raffles introduced partial self-government, stopped the slave trade, restored and researched Borobudur and other ancient monuments, and replaced the Dutch forced agriculture system with a Land tenure system of land management. He also researched and wrote a book entitled History of Java, describing the history of the island from ancient times.

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