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Raffles

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Raf·fles  (rflz), Sir Thomas Stamford 1781-1826.
British colonial administrator who acquired Singapore for the East India Company (1819) and founded a settlement there.
Raffles [ˈræfəlz]
n
(Biographies / Raffles, Sir Thomas Stamford (1781-1826) M, British, POLITICS: colonial administrator) Sir Thomas Stamford. 1781-1826, British colonial administrator: founded Singapore (1819) as a station for the British East India Company
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Noun1.Raffles - British colonial administrator who founded Singapore (1781-1826)
Sir Thomas Raffles, Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles


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Raffles was a villain, when all is written; it is no service to his memory to glaze the fact; yet I have done so myself before to-day.
A Thief in the Night by Hornung, E. W. View in context
As Rigg pronounced the last words he turned round and looked at Raffles with his prominent frozen eyes.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
Raffles himself had merely discarded his dining jacket for one of his innumerable blazers.
The Amateur Cracksman by Hornung, E. W. View in context
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