Sir Charles Eliot | |
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British Ambassador to Japan | |
In office 1919–1925 | |
Monarch | George V |
Prime Minister | David Lloyd George Bonar Law Stanley Baldwin Ramsay MacDonald |
Preceded by | Sir Conyngham Greene |
Succeeded by | Sir John Tilley |
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong | |
In office 1912–1918 | |
Succeeded by | Prof. G.P. Jordan |
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield | |
In office 1905–1913 | |
Succeeded by | Herbert Fisher |
Commissioner of the East Africa Protectorate | |
In office 30 December 1900 – 20 May 1904 | |
Preceded by | Arthur Hardinge |
Succeeded by | Sir Donald Stewart |
Personal details | |
Born | Sibford Gower, Oxfordshire | 8 January 1862
Died | 16 March 1931 Strait of Malacca | (aged 69)
Alma mater | Cheltenham College Balliol College, Oxford |
Sir Charles Norton Edgcumbe Eliot GCMG CB PC (8 January 1862 – 16 March 1931) was a British diplomat, colonial administrator and botanist. He served as Commissioner of British East Africa in 1900–1904. He was British Ambassador to Japan in 1919–1925.[1]
He was also known as a malacologist and marine biologist.[2] He described a number of sea slug species, including Chelidonura varians.
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