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Charles Eliot (diplomat)
Sir Charles Norton Edgecumbe Eliot (8 January 1862 – 16 March 1931) was a British knight 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.〔Nussbaum, "Eliot, Charles Norton Edgcumbe," ; Ian Nish. (2004). ''British Envoys in Japan 1859–1972,'' pp. 114–122.〕
He was also known as a malacologist and marine biologist.〔()〕 He named the sea slug species ''Chelidonura varians'' Eliot, 1903.
==Career==
Eliot was born in the village of Sibford Gower near Banbury, Oxfordshire, England and educated at Cheltenham College and Balliol College, Oxford, where he took a double first in classical moderations and Greats, as well as winning the Craven, Ireland and Hertford scholarships. Remarkably, he also won the Boden Sanskrit Scholarship and the Houghton Syriac prize. He was a noteworthy linguist, with a full knowledge of 16 languages and conversant in 20 more.〔Winckworth, Ronald. (1931). ("Obituary. Sir Charles Eliot, 1862–1931," ) ''Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London,'' Vol. 19, No. 5, pp. 224–226.〕
Eliot served in diplomatic posts in Russia (1885), Morocco (1892), Turkey (1893), and Washington, D.C. (1899). He also served as British Commissioner in Samoa, and was knighted as a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in the New Year honours list 1 January 1900.
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