Raffles and Farquhar kin meet at bicentennial show

Families contribute artefacts belonging to the two historical figures to new exhibition

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Melody Zaccheus

Their predecessors did not see eye to eye on how to run Singapore 200 years ago.
And yesterday, the descendants of Stamford Raffles and William Farquhar seemed also to maintain some distance at a media preview of a new bicentennial exhibition at the National Museum of Singapore to which they contributed artefacts.
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