Stamford Raffles
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Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles 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
Portrait of Stamford Raffles by George Francis Joseph, c. 1817
The memorial to Olivia Mariamne Raffles, Raffles's first wife, erected by him along the Kanarielaan in the National Botanical Gardens (now the Bogor Botanical Gardens). Raffles re-landscaped these gardens, which were established in 1744 in Buitenzorg (now Bogor), West Java.
Territory of Bencoolen (pink)
Stamford Raffles
Sophia Hull
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Sophia, Lady Raffles was the second wife of Sir Stamford Raffles, who was a botanist and known as the founder of modern Singapore.
Miniature portrait of Sir Stamford Raffles, by Alfred Edward Chalon, c. 1817
As probably seen by Sophia Raffles, a lithographic print of a view of early Singapore, looking seaward from The Hill (Fort Canning Hill) showing the area between Freshwater Stream (Sungei Bras Basah) and Singapore River. The view is likely to have been drawn a few years before 1830, when it was published in Sophia, Lady Raffles' Memoir of the life and public services of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles.
Sophia Raffles' grave at St Paul's Church, Mill Hill, Barnet, England.