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Stamford Raffles

1781 - 1826

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Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles (5 July 1781 – 5 July 1826) 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. Raffles was involved in the capture of the Indonesian island of Java from the Dutch during the Napoleonic Wars. It was 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Stamford Raffles is the 2,583rd most popular politician (down from 2,001st in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Jamaica and the most popular Jamaican Politician.

Stamford Raffles was a British colonial administrator who founded the city of Singapore and was a major figure in the early history of the British Empire in Southeast Asia.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Stamford Raffles ranks 2,583 out of 19,576. Before him are Miloš Obrenović, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Fumio Kishida, Childebert II, Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma. After him are Karl Radek, Necmettin Erbakan, Polyxena, Daniel of Galicia, Aslan Maskhadov, and Damdin Sükhbaatar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1781, Stamford Raffles ranks 10. Before him are Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Siméon Denis Poisson, Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France, René Laennec, Adelbert von Chamisso, and David Brewster. After him are William I of Württemberg, Achim von Arnim, Anton Diabelli, Frederica of Baden, Joseph Karl Stieler, and Mauro Giuliani. Among people deceased in 1826, Stamford Raffles ranks 12. Before him are John VI of Portugal, Philippe Pinel, René Laennec, Joseph Proust, Maria Leopoldina of Austria, and Louis-Gabriel Suchet. After him are Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Nikolay Karamzin, Frederica of Baden, Elizabeth Alexeievna, Johann Elert Bode, and Levin August von Bennigsen.

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In Jamaica

Among people born in Jamaica, Stamford Raffles ranks 2 out of 189. Before him are Bob Marley (1945). After him are Grace Jones (1948), John Barnes (1963), Ben Johnson (1961), Usain Bolt (1986), Patrick Allen (1951), Max Romeo (1944), Peter Tosh (1944), Jimmy Cliff (1948), Marcus Garvey (1887), and Violet Brown (1900).

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Among POLITICIANS In Jamaica

Among politicians born in Jamaica, Stamford Raffles ranks 1. After him are Norman Manley (1893), Portia Simpson-Miller (1945), Michael Manley (1924), Kenneth O. Hall (1941), Andrew Holness (1972), Alexander Bustamante (1884), Bruce Golding (1947), Hugh Shearer (1923), Howard Cooke (1915), Donald Sangster (1911), and Lisa Hanna (1975).

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