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Sir Stamford Raffles was a British official best known for his role in the founding of [[Singapore]] and British Malaya.
From [[1811]] to [[1816]], he served as the British governor of the [[Dutch East Indies]]. After this, he returned to London with some one hundred cases of Asian objects, many of which are now in the collection of the [[British Museum]].
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==References==
*Gallery labels, British Museum.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/20308312878/in/photostream/]
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