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
Rafflesia
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Rafflesia, or stinking corpse lily, is a genus of parasitic flowering plants in the family Rafflesiaceae. The species have enormous flowers, the buds rising from the ground or directly from the lower
Stamford Raffles
…returned under the Anglo–Dutch Treaty of 1824. He also wrote The History of Java in 1817, describing the history of the island from ancient times. The Rafflesia flowers were named after him. Raffles also played a role in further establishing the British Empire's reach in East and Southeast Asia. He secured…
Rafflesia arnoldii Bengkulu 01
Replica of Rafflesia flower displayed in National Museum of Natural History in Manila.
Rafflesia on hanging roots. West Sumatra, Indonesia.
Rafflesia keithii bloom, approximately 80 cm in diameter near Taman Nasional Rafflesia Bengkulu, Indonesia