Definition of Sir Thomas Raffles

1. Noun. British colonial administrator who founded Singapore (1781-1826).

Exact synonyms: Raffles, Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles
Generic synonyms: Administrator, Executive

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sir Thomas Raffles

Sir Richrd Steele
Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler
Sir Robert Peel
Sir Robert Robinson
Sir Robert Walpole
Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister
Sir Ronald Ross
Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Sir Seretse Khama
Sir Stephen Harold Spender
Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan
Sir Thomas Gresham
Sir Thomas Lawrence
Sir Thomas Malory
Sir Thomas More
Sir Thomas Raffles (current term)
Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles
Sir Thomas Wyat
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Sir Tim Rice
Sir Tom Stoppard
Sir Walter Norman Haworth
Sir Walter Ralegh
Sir Walter Raleigh
Sir Walter Scott
Sir William Alexander Craigie
Sir William Chambers
Sir William Crookes
Sir William Gerald Golding
Sir William Gilbert

Literary usage of Sir Thomas Raffles

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Monthly Magazine by Richard Phillips (1826)
"Thus," observes Sir Thomas Raffles, " in two small open boats, without a drop of water, or grain of food, or a rag of covering, except what we happened at ..."

2. The Life of the Right Reverend Thomas Fanshaw Middleton, D. D., Late Bishop by Charles Webb Le Bas (1831)
"favourable circumstance of the case is, that I CHAP. there met with Sir Thomas Raffles, who is lieu- 'v^v^ tenant-governor of Bencoolen, and a man of great ..."

3. The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany (1819)
"Sir Thomas Raffles found himself obliged to agree to the unconditional surrender of ... Sir Thomas Raffles had again endeavoured to obtain justice for that ..."

4. The Cambrian (1901)
"Sir Thomas Raffles. \Milliam Wilberforce, Sir Thomas Duppa. Sir William Sterndale Bennett, Rev. ..."

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