Memoir of the Life and Public Services of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles

Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles established a British East India Company trading factory in Singapore in 1819. In 1830, after Raffles' death in 1826, his widow Lady Sophia Raffles published the Memoir of the Life and Public Services of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles. This coy was presented by Lady Raffles to King Leopold of the Belgians.

 

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