Charles Eliot

Sir Charles Norton Edgecumbe Eliot, GCMG, PC (8 Januari 1862 – 16 Maret 1931) adalah diplomat kesatria, administrator kolonial dan botanis Britania. Ia menjabat sebagai Komisioner Britania Afrika Timur pada 1900–1904. Ia adalah Duta Besar Britania Ambassador untuk Jepang pada 1919–1925.

Yang Terhormat Sir Charles Eliot GCMG, PC
Wakil-Kanselor Universitas Hong Kong
Masa jabatan 1912–1918
Pengganti Prof. G.P. Jordan
Wakil-Kanselor Universitas Sheffield
Masa jabatan 1905–1913
Pengganti Herbert Fisher
Informasi pribadi
Lahir	(1862-01-08)8 Januari 1862 Sibford Gower, Oxfordshire
Meninggal	16 Maret 1931(1931-03-16) (umur 69) Selat Malaka
Suami/istri	tidak pernah menikah
Almamater	Kampus Cheltenham Kampus Balliol, Oxford
Penghargaan Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (en) honorary doctor of the University of Hong Kong (en)
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Ia juga dikenal sebagai malakologis dan ahli biologi kelautan. Namanya diabadikan sebagai nama spesies bernama Chelidonura varians Eliot, 1903.

Karya pilihan

• The East Africa Protectorate (1905)
• Turkey in Europe (1908)
• Hinduism and Buddhism: An Historical Sketch (1921)
• A Finnish Grammar (1890)

Malakologi

• "On Some Nudibranchs from East Africa and Zanzibar, Part V," Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1904 (2): 83–105, Pls. 3–4.
• "The Nudibranchiata of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition," Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1905 (41): 519–532.
• "Nudibranchiata, with some remarks on the families and genera and description of a new genus, Doridomorpha," pp. 540–573, pl. 32. In: J. Stanley Gardiner. (1906). The Fauna and Geography of the Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagoes, Being the Account of the Work Carried on and of the Collections Made by an Expedition during the Years 1899 and 1900, vol. 2. p. 563.

Lihat pula

• Hubungan Inggris-Jepang
• Buddhisme di Jepang
• Edward Carlyon Eliot

Referensi

• Nish, Ian. (2004). British Envoys in Japan 1859–1972. Folkestone, Kent: Global Oriental. 10-ISBN 1-901903-51-6/13-ISBN 978-1-901903-51-5; OCLC 249167170
• Winckworth, Ronald. (1931). "Obituary. Sir Charles Eliot, 1862–1931," Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 19(5): 224–226.

Pranala luar

• Karya Charles Eliot di Project Gutenberg
• Works by Charles Eliot at Internet Archive
• UK in Japan, Chronology of Heads of Mission
• National Archives, Eliot, Charles Norton Edgcumbe

Jabatan politik
Didahului oleh: Sir Arthur Henry Hardinge	Gubernur Kenya 1900–1904	Diteruskan oleh: Sir Donald William Stewart
Jabatan akademik
Didahului oleh: Posisi baru	Wakil-Kanselor Universitas Sheffield 1905–1912	Diteruskan oleh: Herbert Fisher