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Charles Eliot (diplomat)
British diplomat, colonial administrator and botanist
Sir Charles Norton Edgcumbe EliotGCMG CB PC (8 January 1862 – 16 March 1931) was a British 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.[1]
He was also known as a malacologist and marine biologist.[2] He described a number of sea slug species, including Chelidonura varians.
Career
[edit]Eliot was born in the village of Sibford Gower near Banbury, Oxfordshire, England and educated at Cheltenham College and Balliol College, Oxford,[3] 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.[4]
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. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 1898 Birthday Honours and was knighted as a Knight Commander of
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Icon of the Life of the Mind
"Why can't one speak truth sometimes, and call C.E.N. publicly and without apology the infernal old sinner and sham that he is," wrote William James to Alice James in 1888. Because the once iconic, now forgotten, Charles Eliot Norton, A.B. 1846, LL.D. '87, "was the most influential progenitor of the humanities in American education and scholarship," writes James Turner '68, Ph.D. '75, professor of history at the University of Notre Dame, in his biography The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton (Johns Hopkins, $45). He was also, specifically, the first professor of the history of art in the United States. Here's how he ran his Harvard classroom:
In 1897-98, 451 undergraduates --close to a third of the student body--packed Fine Arts 3. Their professor lured them with easy grades and a riveting show; and by no means all students took him seriously, especially in his last years of teaching. A graduate of 1892 told of returning several years later and watching a "line of students during a class hour descending the fire escape from the second story of Massachusetts Hall." Asking for an explanation, he heard "That's Norton's course." The alumnus could only shake his head; in his years Norton's "fiery denunciations of the vulgarity
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The Liberal Edification of River Eliot Norton
The Published Writings of Physicist Eliot Norton
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