Edward Carlyon Eliot, CBE (18 April 1870 – 1 January 1940) was a British Colonial Service administrator.
[1] His brother was Charles Eliot, who was Commissioner for British East Africa and Ambassador to Japan.
Edward married, first, Clara Frances Paterson on 6 June 1899; and, second, Alice Marion Shand, granddaughter of Henry Alfred Alford Nicholls, in 1927, with whom he had a son, David, in 1935.
During his time in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands he worked to improve conditions involved in the mining of phosphates.
[3] Eliot was appointed CBE in the 1931 New Year Honours List[5] Eliot's published writings encompass two works in three publications in one language and 56 library holdings.