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Sir Charles Eliot

British colonial administrator
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Also known as: Sir Charles Norton Edgecumbe Eliot
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Sir Charles Norton Edgecumbe Eliot
Born:
Jan. 8, 1862, Sibford Gower, Oxfordshire, Eng.
Died:
March 16, 1931, at sea, in the Strait of Malacca (aged 69)
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Sir Charles Eliot (born Jan. 8, 1862, Sibford Gower, Oxfordshire, Eng.—died March 16, 1931, at sea, in the Strait of Malacca) was a diplomat and colonial administrator who initiated the policy of white supremacy in the British East Africa Protectorate (now Kenya). A scholar and linguist, Eliot served in diplomatic posts in Russia (1885), Morocco (1892), Turkey (1893), and Washington, D.C. (1899). In 1900 he was knighted and appointed commissioner and consul general for the East Africa Protectorate. He collaborated with the farmers there (notably Lord Delamere, to whom he ceded 100,000 acres [40,500 hectares] of land) and encouraged European ...(100 of 201 words)

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