Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles (1781–1826)

Entered the service of the East India Company, 1805. Lieutenant-governor of Java, 1811–15. Governor of Bencoolen, 1818. Persuaded the company to purchase Singapore, 1819. Collected plants and animals and wrote several papers on natural history. A founder and first president of the Zoological Society of London, 1826. FRS 1817.