Sir Charles Eliot

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...