A Biographical Dictionary of the Living Authors of Great Britain and Ireland by John Watkins and Frederic Shoberl

Title
A Biographical Dictionary of the Living Authors of Great Britain and Ireland by John Watkins and Frederic Shoberl
Year/Period
1816
Region
London
Object Type
books
Material
paper (fiber product)
Technique
bookbinding (process), printing (process)
Dimension
Object size: 22.3 x 14.3 x 2.7 cm
Accession No.
2019-00315
Collection of
National Museum of Singapore
Credit Line
Gift of Tang Holdings Pte Ltd

Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles established a British East India Company trading factory in Singapore in 1819. This book’s entry on Raffles is the first known printed biographical account of him and caused him much distress with its implication that his promotion to Assistant-Secretary in the Prince of Wales (Penang) government was due to his marriage to a woman connected with the Secretary of the East India Company.

 

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