Stamford Raffles was born abroad a ship off the coast of Jamaica in 1971. Instead (1) ..............................attending university, he worked for East India Company (2) ..............................a BT_Updatepower-Week1(Grade 9)-June 2021 clerk and studied hard in his spare (3) .............................. At the age of thirty, he became lieutenant governor of java, (4) ..............................he employed zoologists and botanists (5) ..............................discover all they could about the animals and plants on the islands. Raffles himself acquired a large collection of animals, including a Malayan sun bear that was brought (6) ..............................with his children. The bear often joined Raffles for dinner, (7) .............................. fruit and drinking champagne. On a trip to Europe to 1817, Raffles visited a scientific institution for the study of plants and animals. It was this visit (8) ..............................gave him the idea for the forming of a collection of living animals. (9) .............................. founding the colony of Singapore in 1819, Raffles (10) ..............................together with several influential scientists and aristocrats (11) ..............................listened carefully to the ideas he so strongly believed (12) .............................. Raffles (13) ..............................in convincing these people that his ideas were sound and they voted him president of the Zoological Society of London. Raffles died suddenly from a stroke in 1826. Sadly, the man (14) ..............................idea it was to start London Zoo did not see its opening two years (15) .............................., in 1828.