Regency Portraits Catalogue

Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles (1781-1826), Colonial governor and zoologist

Colonial Governor largely responsible for the acquisition of Singapore in 1819; founder of the Zoological Society; knighted 1817.

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Collis 1966
Maurice Collis, Raffles, 1966.

Raffles 1830
Lady Raffles, Memoir, 1830.

Wurzburg 1954
C. E. Wurzburg, Raffles of the Eastern Isles, 1954.


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