| Authorised form of name | Raffles; Sir; Thomas Stamford Bingley (1781 - 1826) |
| Dates | 1781 - 1826 |
| Place of birth | At sea on board the Ann, off Port Morant, Jamaica, West Indies |
| Date of birth | 05 or 06 July 1781 |
| Place of death | London |
| Date of death | 05 July 1826 |
| Research field | Natural history |
| Activity | Career:
Entered HEIC service; went to Penang (1805); assisted in the reduction of Java; Lieutenant Governor of Java (1811-1815), when Java was restored to the Dutch; wrote 'A history of Java' (1815); Governor of Bencoolen (1818?); involved in the acquisition of Singapore; returned to England, but a vessel caught fire, destroying his papers, and zoological, botanical and other collections (1824); involved with the foundation of the Zoological Society; discovered in Sumatra the flower Rafflesia Arnoldi; died of apoplexy
Honours:
Kt 1817
Memberships:
FZS (First President)
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 20/03/1817 |
| Relationships | Son of Benjamin Raffles, captain in the West India trade |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
Notes:
DSB gives birth date as 06 July 1781 |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/66670173 |
| Code | NA7464 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1816/17 | Raffles, Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| PT/15/18/3 | Plate, 'Stomach of a rhinoceros from Sumatra inverted' by Wm [William] Clift | [1821] |
| MS/709/62 | Circular letter from Thomas Stamford Raffles, Grosvenor Street, to James De Carle Sowerby, Mead Place, Lambeth | 24 April 1826 |
| PT/15/18/1 | Manuscript, 'An account of the skeletons of the dugong, two-horned rhinoceros, and tapir of Sumatra, sent to England by Sir Thos [Thomas] Raffles, Governor of Bencoolen [Bengkulu, Sumatra, Indonesia]' by Sir Everard Home | [1821] |
| NLB/18/142 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Rev R B Raffles, 86 St Stephen's Avenue, Shepherd's Bush, W. | 23 January 1899 |
| PT/15/18/5 | Plate, 'The skull of the tapir from Sumatra' by Wm [William] Clift | [1821] |
| PT/15/18/4 | Plate, 'The skeleton of the rhinoceros from Sumatra' by R [Robert] Hills | [1821] |
| PT/14/16/1 | Manuscript, 'Some account of the dugong' by Sir [Thomas] Stamford Raffles in a letter to Sir Everard Home | [1820] |
| PT/14/16/2 | Plate, unpublished illustrations of the anatomy of the dugong by [Thomas Stamford Raffles] | [1820] |
| PT/15/18/2 | Plate, 'Skeleton of a female dugong' by Wm [William] Clift | [1821] |
| PT/15/18/6 | Plate, 'The skull of the tapir from America' by Wm [William] Clift | [1821] |
| PT/15/18 | Paper, 'An account of the skeletons of the dugong, two-horned rhinoceros, and tapir of Sumatra, sent to England by Sir Thos [Thomas] Raffles, Governor of Bencoolen [Bengkulu, Sumatra, Indonesia]' by Sir Everard Home | [1821] |
| PT/73/10/4 | Painting, Indian elephant eardrum by W [William] Clift | [1822] |
| PT/73/8/18 | Painting, Sumatra dugong by [William Clift] | [1820] |
| PT/14/25 | Paper, 'Particulars respecting the anatomy of the dugong, not mentioned by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles. Intended as a supplement to Sir Stamford's account of that animal' by Sir Everard Home | [1820] |
| PT/73/6/19 | Drawings, gullets of the Java swallow, common swallow, and blackbird by Franz [Andreas] Bauer | [1817] |
| PT/14/16 | Paper, 'Some account of the dugong' by Sir [Thomas] Stamford Raffles in a letter to Sir Everard Home | [1820] |
| PT/73/10/5 | Painting, Indian elephant eardrum and mastoid cells by W [William] Clift | [1822] |
| PT/73/8/12 | Painting, dugong skull and tusk by W H [William Home] Clift | [1820] |