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Sir Stamford Raffles (born July 6, 1781, at sea, off Port Morant, Jam. —died July 5, 1826, London, Eng.) was a British East Indian administrator and founder of the port city of Singapore (1819), who was largely responsible for the creation of Britain's Far Eastern empire. He was knighted in 1816.