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In 1805, a dashing EIC administrator, Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles, came out to Penang at the age of 24.
After the war, however, the British government decided to restore Dutch territory and interests — and Raffles found another site, the island and future port of Singapore.
Britain’s administrator, Stamford Raffles, who was named Lieutenant Governor, even visited Bali, and may have had it in mind to build a trading station here.
But Raffles secured his place in history by negotiating with the Sultan of Johor the creation of the Singapore trading post, in 1819.