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Raffles (surname)
Raffles is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Hugh Raffles, English-born anthropologist and writer based in America * Franki Raffles (1955–1994), English feminist social documentary photographer * Mark Raffles (1922–2022), British magician * Ralph Raffles (1920–2008), British bobsledder * Stamford Raffles (1781–1826), British statesman, Lieutenant Governor of Java and founder of Singapore in 1819 ** Lady Raffles (other), title of two women married to Stamford Raffles * Stamford Raffles-Flint (1847–1925), onetime Archdeacon of Cornwall * Thomas Raffles (1788–1863), English Congregational minister ** Thomas Raffles Hughes (1856–1938), British barrister See also * Raffles (other) {{Surname, Raffles English-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Raffles
Hugh Raffles is an anthropologist and writer based in New York. He received an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature in 2023. He is the author of three books as well as many essays in venues including ''Granta'', ''Public Culture'', ''Natural History (magazine), Natural History'', ''Orion'', ''American Ethnologist'', ''The New York Times'', ''The New York Review of Books'', and ''The Best American Essays''. He is Professor of Anthropology at The New School in New York. Life Raffles grew up in London, England, and moved to New York in the early 1990s. He lives in New York City. Awards and criticism Raffles was the recipient of the 2003 Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing of the Society for Humanistic Anthropology and of a Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award for ''In Amazonia: A Natural History''. In 2009, Raffles was awarded a Whiting Awards, Whiting Award. In 2010, ''Insectopedia'' was the winner of the 2011 Orion (magazine)#Orion Book Award, Orion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franki Raffles
Franki Raffles (17 October 1955 – 6 December 1994) was an English feminist social documentary photographer, best known for her work on the Zero Tolerance campaign. In her lifetime, she exhibited in Stills Gallery, Edinburgh; Mercury Gallery, London; The Corridor Gallery, Fife; Pearce Institute, Glasgow; and First of May Gallery, Edinburgh. Early life and education Franki Raffles was born in Salford on 17 October 1955. Her parents were Eric and Gillian Raffles (née Posnansky). She had two older sisters, Sally and Emma, and a younger brother, Hugh. Her father managed the E Raffles and Co. textile factory, which had been established by her grandfather. In 1963 the family moved to London where Raffles was educated at Lady Eleanor Holles School. As a teenager she was active in Jewish Youth organisations and aged fifteen she joined a trip to the Soviet Union visiting Moscow and Leningrad. In the summer of 1973, after leaving school and before university, she spent several mont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Raffles
Mark Raffles (born Albert Taylor, 22 January 1922 – 18 September 2022) was a British magician famous for his pickpocket and disappearing dog acts. Early life and career Mark Raffles was born Albert Taylor on 22 January 1922 in Hulme, Manchester. He initially struggled with a speech defect and a stammer and was schooled in magic by an uncle. He started a silent magic act, under the stage name Ray St. Clair, at the Queen's Park Hippodrome at age 16. The severe stammer prevented him from joining the army at the start of World War II. He worked for a time as a bricklayer, building air raid shelters. He joined the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) in 1941 and spent the next three years entertaining troops, developing his pickpocket act during this time. He received the Veteran's Badge for his service. Later life and death He appeared in the movie Cup-tie Honeymoon along with Sandy Powell in 1948. He met the dancer Joan Cleare in pantomime in Bilston later that yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Raffles
Major Ralph Leslie Stamford Raffles (15 May 1920 – January 2008) was a British businessman, philanthropist, soldier and sportsman. As a bobsledder he competed in the four-man event at the 1956 Winter Olympics The 1956 Winter Olympics, officially known as the VII Olympic Winter Games () and commonly known as Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956 ( or ), were a multi-sport event held in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, from 26 January to 5 February 1956. Cortina, which .... He was High Sheriff of Greater Manchester in 1979-1980. References 1920 births 2008 deaths British male bobsledders Olympic bobsledders for Great Britain Bobsledders at the 1956 Winter Olympics Sportspeople from Prestwich {{UK-bobsleigh-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stamford Raffles
Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles (5 July 1781 – 5 July 1826) was a British Colonial Office, colonial official who served as the List of governors of the Dutch East Indies, governor of the Dutch East Indies between 1811 and 1816 and lieutenant-governor of Bencoolen between 1818 and 1824. Raffles was involved in Invasion of Java (1811), the capture of the Dutch East Indies, Indonesian island of Java from the French and British interregnum in the Dutch East Indies#French interregnum 1806–1811, Dutch during the Napoleonic Wars. It was returned under the Anglo–Dutch Treaty of 1824. He also wrote ''The History of Java (1817 book), The History of Java'' in 1817, describing the history of the island from ancient times. The ''Rafflesia'' flowers were named after him. Raffles also played a role in further establishing the British Empire's reach in East Asia, East and Southeast Asia. He secured control over the strategically located Singapore from local rulers in 1819 to secure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady Raffles (other)
Lady Raffles may refer to: People * Olivia Mariamne Devenish, the first wife of Sir Stamford Raffles *Sophia Hull, the writer and the second wife of Sir Stamford Raffles Other uses * ''Lady Raffles'' (film), a 1928 American silent film *''Lady Raffles'', a ship from London in 1817, which Sir Stamford Raffles Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles (5 July 1781 – 5 July 1826) was a British Colonial Office, colonial official who served as the List of governors of the Dutch East Indies, governor of the Dutch East Indies between 1811 and 1816 and lieut ..., his wife Sophia and 30 others traveled on board from Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, to Bencoolen, Jakarta See also * Raffles (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stamford Raffles-Flint
Stamford Raffles-Flint (6 February 1847 – 15 August 1925) was Archdeacon of Cornwall from 1916 until his death. He was the son of William Charles Raffles Flint and his wife Jenny Rosdew Mudge, daughter of Richard Zachariah Mudge, educated at Eton and University College, Oxford and ordained in 1871. After a curacy at Alverstoke he was Rector of Ladock from 1885 until 1920 when he became Canon Residentiary and Treasurer of Truro Cathedral The Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a Church of England cathedral in the city of Truro, Cornwall. It was built between 1880 and 1910 to a Gothic Revival design by John Loughborough Pearson on the site of the parish church of St Mary. His .... In 1884 he married Ethel Maud Quentin, sister of George Quentin. References 1847 births People educated at Eton College Alumni of University College, Oxford Archdeacons of Cornwall 1925 deaths {{Canterbury-archdeacon-19C-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Raffles
Thomas Raffles (17 May 1788 – 18 August 1863) was an English Congregational minister, known as a dominant nonconformist figure at the Great George Street Congregational Church in Liverpool, and as an abolitionist and historian. Early life The only son of William Raffles (died 9 November 1825), a solicitor, he was born in Princes Street, Spitalfields, London, on 17 May 1788; he was first cousin to Stamford Raffles. His mother was a Wesleyan Methodist, and he became one at ten years of age. In 1800 he was sent to a boarding-school in Peckham, kept by a Baptist minister, and among his schoolfellows was his lifelong friend Richard Slate the biographer. While there he joined the congregation of William Bengo' Collyer. For some months in 1803 he was employed as a clerk at Doctors' Commons, but returned to Peckham (October 1803) to prepare for the ministry. Raffles studied at Homerton College (1805–9) under John Pye Smith, was thought to show early promise as a preacher, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Raffles Hughes
Sir Thomas Raffles Hughes, KC (28 January 1856 – 24 October 1938) was a British barrister. Prominent at the Chancery Bar, he was chairman of the General Council of the Bar from 1920 to 1931. The son of Edward Hughes of Huyton Hall, Lancashire, Thomas Hughes was educated at Birkenhead School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where was a scholar and took second-class honours in the classical tripos in 1878. He was called to the bar by Lincoln's Inn in 1880, and was the pupil of Matthew Ingle Joyce, later a Chancery judge. He joined the Northern Circuit and practiced there until he took silk in 1898, when he settled in London, practising in the court of Mr Justice Byrne, then of Mr Justice Farwell. When his pupil-master Ingle Joyce was elevated to the High Court in 1900, Hughes moved to his court, dividing up the work with Robert Younger KC (later Lord Blanesburgh). Unlike other Chancery silks, Hughes never went "special" but attached himself to a succession of Chancery judges. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raffles (other)
Raffles may refer to: Things associated with Singapore *Stamford Raffles, founder of Singapore **Raffles Hotel in Singapore **Raffles Place, the centre of the Financial District of Singapore **Raffles Library and Museum, original institution that is now the National Museum of Singapore ** Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research, now part of the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum in Singapore **Raffles College, now part of the National University of Singapore **Raffles Institution, a pre-tertiary educational institution in Singapore ***Raffles Junior College, a junior college now merged with the Raffles Institution ** Raffles Girls' School, an all-girls secondary school in Singapore ** Raffles Girls' Primary School, an all-girls primary school in Singapore Things associated with the fictional gentleman thief Literature * A. J. Raffles (character), a fictional gentleman thief in a series of books by E. W. Hornung **Raffles stories and adaptations, based on the series of books ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
