Raffles Lighthouse Foundation Stone in Raffles Lighthouse on Pulau Satumu, was laid with the Raffles Lighthouse Memorial Tablet, on 24 May 1854, by William J. Butterworth, Colonel, C.B., Governor of the Straits Settlements.
Description
The Foundation Stone inscribed in Latin and, in English it reads:
In the Year of our Lord
1854,
and in the Seventeenth Year of the reign of
VICTORIA,
QUEEN OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND,
The Most Noble
James Andrew of Dalhousie, Kt.
being Governor-General of British India,
The Foundation Stone
of the Lighthouse, to be erected on the
Coney, and dedicated to the Memory of
SIR STAMFORD RAFFLES, Kt.
LL.D., F.R.S. and S.A.L.S.,
to whose Enlightened Policy, the Mercantile
World is indebted for the selection of
SINGAPORE AS AN EMPORIUM,
and for the Freedom of its Commerce from
all restraints,
was laid on the 24th of May, the anniversary
of the birthday of
HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY.
by the
WORSHIPFUL MASTER
and the
BRETHREN OF THE LODGE ZETLAND IN THE EAST,
NO. 748,
In the presence of
COLONEL BUTTERWORTH, C.B.
The Governor of the Straits Settlements, and
many of the British and Foreign Residents at Singapore.
Author
Vernon Cornelius-Takahama
References
Buckley, C. B. (1984). An anecdotal history of old times in Singapore: 1819-1867 (p. 522). Singapore: Oxford University Press.
(Call no.: RSING 959.57 BUC)
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