Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles
1781–1826
Entered the service of the East India Company, 1805. Lieutenant-governor of Java, 1811–15. Governor of Bencoolen, 1818. Persuaded the company to purchase Singapore, 1819. Collected plants and animals and wrote several papers on natural history. A founder and first president of the Zoological Society of London, 1826. FRS 1817.
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DSB.
Bibliography
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
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