Charles Eliot (Diplomat)
Sir Charles Norton Edgecumbe Eliot ( born January 8, 1862 in Sibford Gower, Oxfordshire, England; † March 16, 1931 on board the ship Hakone Maru in the Strait of Malacca ) was a British colonial administrator and diplomat. As malacologist he described several species of nudibranch ( Nudibranchia ).
Biography
Eliot came after school education in the diplomatic service and in 1885 was first used in Russia and then in 1892 in Morocco. For that places local year of work, he went in 1893, first in the Ottoman Empire and then in 1899 to Washington, DC. After only a brief period where he was in 1899 appointed High Commissioner and Consul General of the International Commission for the study of existing problems and the future administration of Samoa by the three protecting powers (Britain, U.S. and German Empire ) was established.
For his achievements in diplomacy and colonial administration, he was beaten in 1900 for Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George ( KCMG ) and led since the additional name sir. Shortly thereafter, he was appointed Commissioner for the Protectorate of British East Africa, now Kenya, and at the same time appointed Consul General of Zanzibar. During his tenure, he introduced a policy of white supremacy. At the same time he worked closely on this issue with the white farmers, especially with Lord Delamere, which he ceded 40,500 acres of land. He also encouraged by low land prices European settlers to settle in East Africa. However, in 1903 hit him criticism by the Colonial Office ( Colonial Office ), which the projects of Eliot went too fast. When he was in 1904 again criticized for the granting of a concession of land, which was originally intended for the Maasai, he resigned.
From 1912 to 1918 he was the first Vice-Chancellor of the newly established University of Hong Kong
It was not until 1918 he again entered the service of the Secretary of State (Foreign Office ), after he had assumed the Office of the High Commissioner and Consul-General in Siberia. At this time Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak Admiral undertook an attempt to stop the advance of Soviet troops to the east.
In 1920 he was finally appointed as ambassador to Japan and held that post until his retirement in 1926. However, he remained living in Japan until his death.
Publications
Sir Charles Eliot also dealt with historical subjects and persons such as Buddhism in Japan and Abdulhamid II, the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Among his most important works:
- "Turkey in Europe", New York 1907
- "Japanese Buddhism ", ISBN 0,710,309,678th