Edward Carlyon Eliot was a British

United Kingdom

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 diplomat and Colonial Service

Colonial Service

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 administrator.

Personal

Eliot is described as a neat, slim man of medium height with very black hair.

His brother was Charles Eliot

Charles Eliot (diplomat)

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...

, who was Commissioner for British East Africa and Ambassador to Japan.

Career

From 1913 through 1920, Eliot was the Resident Commissioner

Resident Commissioner

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 of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands

Gilbert and Ellice Islands

The Gilbert and Ellice Islands were a British protectorate from 1892 and colony from 1916 until 1 January 1976, when the islands were divided into two different colonies which became independent nations shortly after...

 (now Kiribati

Kiribati

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 and Tuvalu

Tuvalu

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). During this period, he worked to improve conditions involved in the mining of phosphates.
He was administrator of Dominica

Dominica

Dominica , officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island nation in the Lesser Antilles region of the Caribbean Sea, south-southeast of Guadeloupe and northwest of Martinique. Its size is and the highest point in the country is Morne Diablotins, which has an elevation of . The Commonwealth...

from 1924 through 1930.

Selected works

Eliot's published writings encompass 2 works in 3 publications in 1 language and 56 library holdings.

• Gilbert and Ellice Islands Protectorate. Report for 1912-1914: Presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of His Majesty. June, 1915.
• Address to Legislative Council of Dominica (1928)
• Broken Atoms (1938)
• Ocean Island Affairs: Gilbert and Ellice Islands Protectorate (later Colony), 1913-20. (1938)

Journals

• "A Model Protectorate: Gilbert & Ellice Islands, Central Pacific," in United Empire: The Royal Colonial Institute Journal, Vol. 6, No. 12, December 1915, pp. 878-882.
• "In an Open Boat on the Pacific," in United Empire, September 1918, pp. 393-395.

External links

• National Archives, Eliot, Edward Carlyon