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Book The Family of Sir Stamford Raffles

Download or read book The Family of Sir Stamford Raffles written by John Bastin and published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Wives of Sir Stamford Raffles

Download or read book Wives of Sir Stamford Raffles written by John Bastin and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pair of elegant, slip-cased volumes are devoted to Raffles' second wife, Sophia (1786-1858), who wrote the first published account of her husband's life and achievements, and his lesser-known but equally, if not more intriguing, first wife, Olivia (1771-1814).

Book Memoir of the Life and Public Services of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles     Particularly in the Government of Java  1811 1816  Bencoolen and Its Dependencies  1817 1824   with Details of the Commerce and Resources of the Eastern Archipelago  and Selections from His Correspondence

Download or read book Memoir of the Life and Public Services of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles Particularly in the Government of Java 1811 1816 Bencoolen and Its Dependencies 1817 1824 with Details of the Commerce and Resources of the Eastern Archipelago and Selections from His Correspondence written by Lady Sophia Raffles and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sir Stamford Raffles And Some Of His Friends And Contemporaries  A Memoir Of The Founder Of Singapore

Download or read book Sir Stamford Raffles And Some Of His Friends And Contemporaries A Memoir Of The Founder Of Singapore written by Bastin John and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is a biographical account of the founder of Singapore, Sir Stamford Raffles, through a study of the lives of his closest friends and contemporaries. Some of the personalities featured include William Brown Ramsay, John Leyden and Thomas Horsfield.

Book Raffles and the Golden Opportunity  1781 1826

Download or read book Raffles and the Golden Opportunity 1781 1826 written by Victoria Glendinning and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1819 Sir Stamford Raffles, without authority from London, raised the British flag on a small jungle-covered island and founded a settlement which would become the city state of Singapore. It was the crowning moment in an extraordinary career in South-East Asia, which saw Raffles shake off his humble beginnings to become Lieutenant-Governor of Java. But his success in the tropics was overshadowed by professional conflict and personal tragedy. Acclaimed biographer Victoria Glendinning charts the extraordinary life of an English adventurer, disobedient employee of the East India Company, utopian imperialist, linguist, naturalist, collector and troublesome visionary. If Raffles' own end was tragic, the mark he left on the world is indelible. His name and fame are undimmed today and, as he hoped, Singapore has become his lasting monument.

Book Olivia   Sophia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rosie Milne
  • Publisher : Monsoon Books
  • Release : 2015-10-01
  • ISBN : 9814625280
  • Pages : 447 pages

Download or read book Olivia Sophia written by Rosie Milne and published by Monsoon Books. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Raffles sets sail from the cold, damp confines of Georgian London to make his name and fortune in the tropics, he takes with him his new wife, Olivia, a raffish beauty with a scandalous past. She infatuates both his closest friend, a poet, and one of his bitterest rivals, a soldier. Raffles sees what is going on, but he turns a blind eye – or so hopes Olivia. After Olivia’s death, and back on leave in London, Raffles, a man once again in need of a wife, makes a practical marriage. Sophia, no beauty, but curious and intelligent, embraces the opportunity of an exciting life abroad. Marriage brings her great joy but also great sadness. Her life with Raffles becomes a catalogue of loss: of their children, of their possessions, of their savings. And all the while, Raffles, driven and talented, manoeuvres at the centre of global networks of power, trade, politics and diplomacy. His scheming culminates, to his eventual glory, with the founding of a new trading post: Singapore.

Book Memoir Of The Life And Public Services Of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles

Download or read book Memoir Of The Life And Public Services Of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles written by Lady Sophia Raffles and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir chronicles the life and public service of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, one of the most important figures in the history of Singapore and the wider British Empire. Written by his wife Lady Sophia Raffles, this book provides unique insight into the personal and professional life of a true pioneer. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book The Life of Sir Stamford Raffles

Download or read book The Life of Sir Stamford Raffles written by Demetrius Charles Boulger and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Life of Sir Stamford Raffles

Download or read book The Life of Sir Stamford Raffles written by Demetrius Charles Boulger and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sir Stamford Raffles

Download or read book Sir Stamford Raffles written by Hugh Edward Egerton and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Raffles in Southeast Asia

Download or read book Raffles in Southeast Asia written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exhibition catalog of Raffles in Southeast Asia Exhibition, Singapore, 2019.

Book Forbidden Hill

    Book Details:
  • Author : John D. Greenwood
  • Publisher : Monsoon Books
  • Release : 2017-12-01
  • ISBN : 1912049198
  • Pages : 463 pages

Download or read book Forbidden Hill written by John D. Greenwood and published by Monsoon Books. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 6 February 1819, Stamford Raffles, William Farquhar, Temenggong Abdul Rahman and Sultan Hussein signed a treaty that granted the British East India Company the right to establish a trading settlement on the sparsely populated island of Singapore. Forbidden Hill (Singapore Saga, Vol. 1) is a meticulously researched and vividly imagined historical narrative that brings to life the stories of the early European, Malay, Chinese and Indian pioneers––the administrators, merchants, policemen, boatmen, coolies, concubines, slaves and secret society soldiers––whose vision and intrigues drive the rapid expansion of the port city in the early decades of the nineteenth century. While Raffles and Farquhar clash over the administration of the settlement, the Scottish merchant adventurer Ronnie Simpson and Englishwoman Sarah Hemmings find love and redemption as they battle an American duelist and Illanun pirates. As the ghosts of the rajahs of the ancient city of Singapura fade into the shadows of Forbidden Hill, the new settlers forge their linked destinies in the ‘emporium of the Eastern seas’.

Book Memoir of the Life and Public Services of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles

Download or read book Memoir of the Life and Public Services of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles written by Sophia Raffles and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Life of Stamford Raffles  1897

Download or read book The Life of Stamford Raffles 1897 written by Demetrius Charles Boulger and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.