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| Author | : John Bastin |
| Publisher | : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 361 |
| Release | : 2016-01-15 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9810972369 |
| Author | : John Bastin |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2014-10-28 |
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| ISBN | : 9789814189491 |
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).
| Author | : Bastin John |
| Publisher | : World Scientific |
| Total Pages | : 488 |
| Release | : 2019-03-28 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9813277688 |
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.
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| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : Colonial administrators |
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| Author | : Demetrius Charles Boulger |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 466 |
| Release | : 1897 |
| Genre | : British |
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| Author | : Victoria Glendinning |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Colonial administrators |
| ISBN | : 9781846686047 |
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.
| Author | : Lady Sophia Raffles |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 620 |
| Release | : 1835 |
| Genre | : Colonial administrators |
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| Author | : Rosie Milne |
| Publisher | : Monsoon Books |
| Total Pages | : 444 |
| Release | : 2015-10-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9814625280 |
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.
| Author | : John Sturgus Bastin |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 159 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Colonial administrators |
| ISBN | : 9789813065666 |
| Author | : Lady Sophia Raffles |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 492 |
| Release | : 1835 |
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