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Stamford Raffles
Thomas Stamford Raffles was a British official of the East India Company. He served at Penang from 1805 and was Lieutenant-Governor of Java from 1811 to 1816 during the British occupation, when he reformed land revenue, deposed or reduced Javanese rulers and wrote a History of Java. As Lieutenant-Governor of Bencoolen in Sumatra from 1818 he founded the British settlement at Singapore in 1819.
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