Charles Eliot (diplomat)

Sir Charles Eliot was a British diplomat, linguist and scholar who served as Commissioner of the East Africa Protectorate from 1900 to 1904. He promoted European settlement in the Kenya highlands, setting aside land at the expense of the Maasai and other Africans, and resigned in 1904 after a dispute over Maasai land. He later served as ambassador to Japan and wrote on Hinduism and Buddhism.