Charles Euan-Smith

After being educated privately in England and Belgium he joined the Madras Army at the age of 17 as an ensign and was promoted to lieutenant in 1861.

He was promoted to captain in 1870[2] and was secretary to Sir Frederic Goldsmid's special commission in 1871 for the delimitation of the Baluch frontier with Persia.

He was given the temporary rank of Major[3] when he accompanied Sir Bartle Frere on his expedition to Zanzibar in 1872 to negotiate a treaty with the Sultan for the suppression of the slave traffic.

In August 1879 Euan-Smith was appointed consul at Muscat[4] but he left shortly afterwards to join the Second Anglo-Afghan War as chief political officer on the staff of Lieutenant-General Sir Donald Stewart.

This resulted in the so-called Heligoland–Zanzibar Treaty of July 1890 in which Germany and the United Kingdom agreed on territorial interests in East Africa.