Definition of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles

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

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

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles

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
Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles (current term)
Sir Thomas Wyat
Sir Thomas Wyatt
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Sir Walter Ralegh
Sir Walter Raleigh
Sir Walter Scott
Sir William Alexander Craigie
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Literary usage of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles

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

1. Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1833)
"By Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, Governor of 'Sumatra. Communicated in a Letter to Sir Everard Home, Bart. VPRS Read May 18,1820. ..."

2. Six Discourses Delivered Before the Royal Society at Their Anniversary by Humphry Davy (1827)
"CHARACTERS OF TAYLOR COMBE, ESQ., AND Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles. ... Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles ..."

3. The Natural History of Game-birds: Illustrated by Thirty-one Plates by William Jardine (1844)
"... MEMOIR OF Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles.» THE intention of these necessarily short mémoire being to sketch the character, and detail the labours, ..."

4. The Annual Biography and Obituary for the Year (1827)
"Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, KNT. FELLOW OF THE ROYAL AND ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETIES OF ... Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles was born on board the ship Anne, at sea, ..."

5. Around the World Through Japan by Walter Del Mar (1904)
"There is a monument to him in Westminster Abbey with the following inscription on the pedestal: — "To the memory of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, LL. ..."

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