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==Biography==
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|author=Victoria Glendinning
|title=Raffles And the Golden Opportunity
|rating=4
|genre=Biography
|summary=Although Raffles has gone down in history as the founder of Singapore his roots were far from grand. He had no advantages apart from his own drive and determination and his professional life began with a lowly clerkship with the East india Company, then as large and ungainly as many a government. When he went abroad on behalf of the Company he quickly learned the merits of doing something and asking permission afterwards, not least because of the time taken to contact London and then receive a reply. Even if all went well this could take the best part of a year - by which time the original question could well be academic.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686032</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Christopher Simon Sykes
