Most importantly, unlike other islands in the region, Singapore was not occupied by the Dutch. The symbolic landing site today by the Singapore River behind Parliament House has been marked with a status of Raffles, although there is alternative version of his first landing via Rochor River. Originally located at the Padang, as seen on this postcard, the statue was relocated to near Victoria Memorial Hall. Raffles found a Malay settlement at the mouth of the river, which was then headed by a Temenggong governor for the Sultan of Johor, Tengku Abdul Rahman.
The settlement was nominally ruled by the Sultan of Johor. The area was under the charge of the Dutch and Bugis, who would never agree to a British base in Singapore. The British and the Temenggong came to a draft agreement on 30 January The British offered to recognise Tengku Hussein as the rightful Sultan of Johor with a yearly payment, in return for the right for the British East India Company to establish a trading post in Singapore. This agreement was put to pen with a formal treaty on 6 February The signing of the treaty was attended by British representatives, Malay dignitaries and members from the local settlements.
On this day, the British flag was formally hoisted on the island, and Modern Singapore was born. After the treaty was signed, Raffles left Major William Farquhar to assume the role of Resident and Commandant in Singapore, the highest ranked East India Company representative on the island.
It was a parting gift from the Chinese community when he left the island in It was however the Treaty of Friendship and Alliance that sought to transfer the power from the Sultan to the British. A part of Armenian Street is also being pedestrianised and turned into a park featuring plants that were introduced as economic crops for the spice trade, food and horticulture in the 19th century. As Raffles had a deep fascination in the diversity of plants and animals, he discovered a vast number of plants and animals in this region.
It is a carnivorous red flower which can grow up to cm in diameter, and was discovered by Raffles and Dr Joseph Arnold, a naval surgeon and naturalist, on 19 May Rafflesia keithii Photo credit: Edmund Chia. As he was an avid bird lover, Raffles begun his study of birds in Singapore when he collected them for the East India Company Museum. He discovered and identified up to 24 species of birds in Singapore, such as the Black-naped Tern Sterna sumatrana and the Crimson Sunbird Aethopyga siparaja.
There are several other native plants and wildlife named after, and associated with, Raffles. Chew, Ernest C. A History of Singapore.
Singapore: Oxford University Press, Accessed August 14, Collis, Maurice. Raffles: The Definitive Biography. Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Editions, Cornelius-Takahama, Vernon. November 02, Accessed July 28, Lee, Boon-Hiok. Lee, Kuan Yew. Ministry of Culture. Information Division. National Archives of Singapore. Accessed September 27, National Youth Council Singapore. Peterson, William. Theatre and the Politics of Culture in Contemporary Singapore. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan, Raffles, Sophia Hull.
Memoir of the life and public services of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles: particularly in the government of Java, , and of Bencoolen and its dependencies, with details of the commerce and resources of the Eastern Archipelago, and selections from his correspondence. London: John Murray, Roser, Max, and Esteban Ortiz-Ospina. Seng, Loh Kah. Tan, Keng Kang, ed. Social and Economic History of Modern Singapore.
Tarling, Nicholas. Studying Singapore's Past: C. Turnbull and the History of Modern Singapore. Singapore: NUS Press, Tay, Zi Han.
June 02, Accessed July 30, Tucson: University of Arizona Press,
0コメント