In my opinion, I think that Major William Farquhar is then the real 'Founder' of Singapore because even though Sir Stamford Raffles was the one who brought Major William Farquhar to Singapore , signed the treaty of building a settlement in the southern part of Singapore , fought hard to keep Singapore to be a trading post against the Dutch , the E.I.C directors and the government in British and paid an allowance of $5 000 000 000 to Tengku Hussein and an allowance of $3 000 to Temenggong a year , he left immediately , did not even bothered to govern the people of Singapore…. Leaving only Major William Farquhar to solve a lot of problems which happen all by himself. Major William Farquhar met a lot of problems after Sir Stamford Raffles left. He have to make sure that alot of people will come to trade and live in Singapore in order to make Singapore prosper, enough food to keep new settlers in Singapore, to maintain discipline so that there will be fewer cases on riots, murder, violence and disorder especially when the new settlers came and to get rid of pest to make the lives of the people in Singapore safe and comfortable…..So my opinion to this topic is that Major William Farquhar is then the real ‘founder’ of Singapore.
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ee hui:
Your blog contains alot of useful and relevant informations but I don't quite agree with you that Major William Farquhar was the founder of Singapore....
Raffles was the one that built the foundation of Singapore. A good foundation contribute much to the future development of a nation...
It was also Raffles who sighed the treaty with Tengku Hussein and Temenggong that allowed the British to set up a trading settlement in Singapore...
thanx for posting! :)
ok.... thx for commenting too !!! ^^
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