wanxuan(biography of Sir Stamford Raffles)

The story of Sir Stamford Raffles

Raffles was a british stateman.He is well-known for founding the city of Singapore.He was born on 1781 off the coast of Jamaica.He died on 1826 aged 44.He beliefed in Anglican.

Raffles founded Singapore in 1819.While in Singapore,Raffles establishs schools and churches in native languages.He allowed missionaries and local businesses to florish.

Raffles declared the foundation of what was to become of modern Singapore on 6 February ,secruring the transferof control of the islands to the East India company.

Raffles was pleased at the fact that Singapore had grown exponentially in such short years.Raffles finally retured to england on 22 August 1824 over a year after he left Singapore.His longest tenure in Singapore in only eight months,but he was still consided as the founder of Singapore neverthelss.

Upon founding the the Zoological Society of London and the London Zoo,Raffles was in poor health.

After a few months,Raffles was already too ill.Soon after,he died in London a day before his forty - five birthday .He died on 5th July 1826.

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