Sophia, Lady Raffles

Sophia, Lady Raffles ( Hull; 5 May 1786 – 12 December 1858) was the second wife of Sir Stamford Raffles, who was a botanist and known as the founder of modern Singapore. Early life Sophia Hull was born in Millman Street, London, England, the daughter of James Watson Hull and his wife Sophia (née Hollamby). She met Stamford Raffles in 1816 in Cheltenham, where she lived, and married him on 22 February 1817. She was aged thirty, her husband five years older. Sophia, Lady Raffles Sir Stamford Raffles had previously been married in 1804 to Olivia Mariamne Devenish, a widow who was ten years older than him. Olivia had died in West Java, Dutch East Indies, in 1814; his grief at her death was such that he erected a memorial to her which still stands at the Taman Prasasti Museum, a former cemetery, in Jakarta, Indonesia. There were no surviving children from this first marriage. Married life