His visit to Australia nevertheless helped him to obtain commissions there and elsewhere for statues of British imperial heroes, such as Captain Cook and Sir Stamford Raffles.

During the autumn of 1992 Lamont became a press target in a string of largely fabricated stories: that he had not paid his hotel bill for " champagne and large breakfasts " from the Conservative Party Conference ( in fact his bill had been forwarded on for settlement ); that he was in arrears on his personal Visa credit card bill ( true ); that in June 1991 he had used taxpayers ' money to handle the fall-out from press stories concerning sex therapist Lindi St Clair ( Miss Whiplash ), who was using a flat he owned ( the Treasury contributed £ 4, 700 of the £ 23, 000 bill which had been formally approved by the Head of the Civil Service and the Prime Minister ; there was never any suggestion that he had ever met her ); and that he had called at a newsagent in a seedy area of Paddington late at night to purchase champagne and cheap " Raffles " cigarettes.

Raffles wrote about a monument called borobudur, but there are no older documents suggesting the same name.

Raffles has his Mr. Manders, and it was apparent that there were rather strong feelings between the two.

While their relationship is strained when Raffles often keeps the man in the dark as to his plans, there is nothing that Bunny wouldn't do for his Raffles.

The Raffles Academy has also been initiated in the Junior College section in 2009 so that there is a continuation of the curriculum.

Raffles itself claims the tiger had escaped from enclosure at a nearby " native show " and chased underneath the hotel's Bar & Billiard Room ( a raised structure ) and shot to death there on August 13, 1902.

The Singapore Institution, now Raffles Institution, which has one House named after him, had been in process of formation there, on his departure for England, similar to the college at Malacca.

The school shifted operations there from its holding site at the former Raffles Junior College in Mount Sinai where it had held classes in 2005.

While it was invented in Raffles Hotel, and can still be found there, it is not easily found at most bars around Singapore however.

Stamford Raffles had built a residence there in 1823, but when the Straits Settlement, which included Singapore, became a crown colony in 1867, a fort was constructed on the hill.

In 1950, he was appointed Raffles Professor of History at the newly-established University of Malaya in Singapore.

Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, The History of Java ( 1817 ), the purest sulphur was supplied from a crater from a mountain near the straits of Bali.

He was encouraged in this by the director of the Raffles Museum ( now the National Museum of Singapore ) and by his election to Fellowship of the Royal Anthropological Institute in 1936.

Others have achieved fame by association with dishes or cocktails created on their premises, such as the Hotel de Paris where the crêpe Suzette was invented or the Raffles Hotel in Singapore, where the Singapore Sling cocktail was devised.

* June 5, 1823 – Raffles Institution, then the Singapore Institution, was founded by the founder of Singapore, Sir Stamford Raffles.

The name Tupaia is derived from tupai the Malay word for squirrel and was provided by Sir Stamford Raffles.

Rafflesia was found in the Indonesian rain forest by an Indonesian guide working for Dr. Joseph Arnold in 1818, and named after Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, the leader of the expedition.

In The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, the names of the signatoriess of the Lunar Declaration of Independence are studied ; but Room L of the Raffles Hotel, wherein the revolution was plotted, is still used as an ordinary hotel room, albeit with a plaque on the wall.

For the initial period Raffles was said to be the most sought after housing in the city by council tenants.

One resident was reported to have said " If you've got a problem in Raffles, get a shotgun ".

In 1811, Java was captured by the British, becoming a possession of the British Empire, and Sir Stamford Raffles was appointed as the island's Governor.

The last was Raffles ( 1939 ).

The Raffles Institution was founded in 1823 by Sir Stamford Raffles.

He was replaced by Raffles.

Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles, FRS ( 6 July 1781 – 5 July 1826 ) was a British statesman, best known for his founding of the city of Singapore ( now the city-state of the Republic of Singapore ).

Raffles was born on the ship Ann off the coast of Port Morant, Jamaica, to Captain Benjamin Raffles ( d. June 1797 ) and Anne Raffles ( née Lyde ).

The British invasion of Java took a total of forty-five days, during which Raffles was appointed the Lieutenant-Governor by Lord Minto before hostilities formally ceased.

When this failed, and when Raffles ' own expeditions into his new dominion found only treacherous terrain and few exportable goods, his desire to establish a better British presence was cemented.

Yet, as Raffles confirmed with the sultan regarding the absolute British influence of the area, he realized that the local rulers had only limited power over the well-cultivated and civilized country, and the treaty was largely symbolic and had little actual force.

Despite the best efforts in London by authorities such as the Viscount Castlereagh to quell Dutch fears and the continuing efforts to reach an agreement between the nations that eventually became the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of London of 1824, as well as to send instructions to Raffles to undertake far less intrusive actions, the distance between the Far East and Europe had meant that the orders had no chance of reaching Raffles in time for his venture to begin.

In April 2005, Raffles Hotels and Resorts Limited signed an agreement with the Beijing Tourism Group ( BTG ), to re-brand and manage two of the four blocks of the Beijing Hotel under the Raffles brand.

Though courts will strive to find a reasonable interpretation in order to preserve the agreement whenever possible, the court in Raffles could not determine which ship named Peerless was intended in the contract.

On 30 January 1819 Sir Stamford Raffles, an Englishman who was the Governor of Bencoolen ( now Bengkulu, Indonesia ), entered into a preliminary agreement with the Temenggung of Johor, Abdul Rahman Sri Maharajah, for the British East India Company to establish a " factory " or trading post on the island of Singapore.

This was confirmed by another agreement signed by Raffles, the Temenggung and Sultan Hussein Shah on 6 February.

On 6 February 1819, Sultan Hussein Shah and the Temenggung of Johor, Abdul Rahman Sri Maharajah, entered into an agreement with Sir Stamford Raffles for the British East India Company ( EIC ) to establish a " factory " or trading post on the island of Singapore.

He helped negotiate the provisional agreement of 30 January 1819 with the local chieftain Temmengong Abdul Rahman of Johore ; and the more formal Singapore Treaty of 6 February 1819, which Raffles signed with the Temmengong and His Highness the Sultan Hussein Mohammed Shah, confirming the right for the British to set up a trading post.

Upon arriving in Batavia, Aubrey is provided by Sir Stamford Raffles with a 20-gun ship which Aubrey renames Nutmeg of Consolation after one of the titles of the Sultan of Pulo Prabang, from the previous novel, The Thirteen Gun Salute.

* 1819 – Stamford Raffles lands on the island of Singapore.

* The 1817 book on the history of the island, by Stamford Raffles, founder of Singapore.

Singapore became numerically dominated by immigrant ethnic groups soon after Sir Stamford Raffles established a trading post on the island in 1819.

* January 29 – Sir Stamford Raffles lands on the island of Singapore.

It is now generally thought that the aberrations occurred because of the 1815 ( April 5 – 15 ) volcanic Mount Tambora eruption on the island of Sumbawa, Indonesia ( then part of the Dutch East Indies, but under British rule during Napoleon's occupation of the Netherlands ), described by Thomas Stamford Raffles.

early part of the nineteenth century: Fort Dundas on Melville Island in 1824 ; Fort Wellington at Raffles Bay in 1829 ; and Victoria Settlement ( Port Essington ) on the Cobourg Peninsula in 1838.

Under the harsh conditions of the island, his wife, Olivia, died on 26 November 1814, an event that devastated Raffles.

Raffles arrived in Bencoolen ( Bengkulu ) on 19 March 1818.

Statue of Sir Stamford Raffles in Singapore, based on the original by Thomas Woolner

To circumvent the situation of having to negotiate with a sultan influenced by the Dutch, Raffles decided to recognise, on behalf of the British Crown, Hussein Shah as being the rightful ruler of Johor.

Raffles declared the foundation of what was to become modern Singapore on 6 February, securing the transfer of control of the island to the East India Company.

originated by Charles Chilton as a radio play, The Long Long Trail in December 1961, and transferred to stage by Gerry Raffles in partnership with Joan Littlewood and her Theatre Workshop created in 1963, which was itself inspired by " The Donkeys ," Alan Clark's 1961 attack on Great War generalship.

The British establishment of Singapore on the Malaya Peninsula in 1819 by Sir Stamford Raffles exacerbated the tension between the two nations, especially as the Dutch claimed that the treaty signed between Raffles and the Sultan of Johore was invalid, and that the Sultanate of Johore was under the Dutch sphere of influence.

Mr. Blum currently serves as Chairman of the board of directors of CB Richard Ellis and is a director on the boards of directors of three other portfolio companies: Fairmont Raffles Holdings International Ltd., Current Media, L. L. C.

The name Borobudur was first written in Sir Thomas Raffles ' book on Javan history.

After seven months in the Southeast Asian country doing extensive psychiatric and legal evaluations, they underwent surgery on July 6, 2003, under the care of a large team of international specialists at Raffles Hospital, composed of 28 surgeons ( including world-renowned neurosurgeon Ben Carson ) and more than 100 support staff working in shifts.