-Paul Nation
Stamford Raffles was a Englishman who was born in Jamaica in 1781. He was the son of an English sea captain, and he was from a poor family. He decided to start working at 14 in British East India Company. He worked very well and hard, so he got higher position in the company.
One day, Raffles become the rulers of the country they traded with, and he started to like foreign place. Then he made a book called History of Java in the 1817s. In 1819 Raffles sailed to Singapore. At that time Singapore still was covered by forest and only a few poor fishermen living there. Some of them were pirates, and they attacked the Raffles's ships and stole anything in his ships. When raffles came, he made a laws and stopped the pirates. The new laws that he made, that are:
- Made a policemen.
- Made sure that they new laws still kept.
Then Singapore became safe and no longer fearfulness. Now Singapore began a trading center for the world.
Raffles did many other things to Singapore, such as buildings, roads, and built many houses. Not only for Singapore, but also for Malay people. He was interested in the history of Malay people, so he read a lot of books about it. Then he made a wrote them in English so that other people could read them too.
He was also interested in nature, then he went into the forest looking for different plants and animal. He brought back some of them and sent it to England. He also brought plants, such as coffee and sugar to Indonesia.
In 1824, Raffles and his wife returned back to England. But before he arrieved in England, he got an accident. A fire began burning his ships and everthing was lost including his books, plants, and animals. Then Raffles started the London Zoo and became first president. In 1826 Raffles died at the age of 45 years old.
by Dini Dwintika Karuniati
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