Who is Sir Stamford Raffles

Raffles was one of the more successful of the (slightly) eccentric soldiers and gentlemen who built the British Empire. Singapore's establishment effectively divided the Malay World in two, Indonesia and Malaysia. Only recently, with Batam in the Riau Islands province of Indonesia, and singapore's neighboring Malaysian city of Johore Bahru, both rapidly developing as economic counterbalances to Singapore, is the economic pre-eminence of Raffle's creation threatened..As if that wasn't enough impact for one person, Raffles also set the standards of excellence for hoteliers everywhere.