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Elliott, Sir Charles Alfred (1835-1911) a civilian and Lieutenant Governor of Bengal (1890-1895). Educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, Charles Alfred Elliott was appointed to the Bengal Civil Service after the open competitive examinations of 1856. Before he joined as Lieutenant Governor of Bengal on 18 December 1890, Elliott held many superior positions including those of Secretary to the Famine Commission, 1878, Census Commissioner (1880), Chief Commissioner of Assam (1881) and Member of the Governor General's Council (1887).
Elliott's regime passed quite peacefully and was mostly
characterised by survey
and settlement operations of Bengal districts, census of 1891,
Lushai affairs, enlistment of the anglo-indians
in British regiments, prosecution of the Bangabasi for disloyal
and 'seditious' reports, reform of Chaukidari Act, 1870, completion
of the Khidirpore docks (1891-92), Labour Inquiry Commission (1896) and
so on. Sir Charles Alfred Elliott died on 28 May 1911. [Sirajul Islam]
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