Charles Eliot
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1862 – 1931
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Who was Charles Eliot?
Sir Charles Norton Edgecumbe Eliot, GCMG, PC 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.
He was also known as a malacologist and marine biologist. He named the sea slug species Chelidonura varians Eliot, 1903.
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- Born
- Jan 8, 1862
Oxfordshire - Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Education
- Balliol College
- Cheltenham College
- Died
- Mar 16, 1931
Strait of Malacca
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on July 23, 2013
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