00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000006806 01468/MKRI-P/II-2005 20221114101017 0010-0520006806 221114################|##########|#eng## 0-141-39142-1 eng 923.9 923.9 BAR i Barley, Nigel In the Footsteps of Stamford Raffles / Nigel Barley London : Oxford University Press, 2002 x, 276 hlm.; 18 cm ; 18 cm Indeks : index IIIust Born on a ship in 1781 and brought up in genteel poverty, Stamford Raffles rose from humble beginnings as an East India Company clerk to become Lieutenant-Governor of Java and Founder of Singapore. Commemorated in Westminster Abbey for his wisdom, vigour and philanthropy in raising Java to happiness and prosperity unknown under former rulers, he died in his forties in near-poverty in a north London suburb amid endless money squabbles with his former employer Biografi 01468/MKRI-P/II-2005