Charles Ollivant
Sir Edward Charles Kayll Ollivant, KCIE (b. 1846) was a senior member of the Indian Civil Service who made a mark in his dealings with two notable politicians.
Ollivant had arrived[1] in India in 1881. By 1892, he was Political Agent in Rajkot and had a notable disagreement[2] with Mohandas Gandhi who was then a young barrister.[3] The incident resulted in Gandhi being pushed out of the room, and ill-feeling was apparently a factor in his departure for South Africa in 1893.
Ollivant was knighted as a Knight Commander of the KCIE in 1892. He was a judicial member of the Council of the Governor of Bombay until April 1902.[4][5] It was Ollivant who offered to hire Jinnah at 1,500 rupees per month and was notably turned down.
Ollivant is also known to have been a director of the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway.[6]
See also
- Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote, Governor of Bombay (1900–1903)
Notes
- ^ Mentioned in The Nursing Record and Hospital World October 7, 1899 accessed at Royal College of Nursing [1] August 3, 2006
- ^ [2] Chronology of M.K. Gandhi, South African History Online
- ^ According to Stanley Wolpert, Gandhi's Passion : The Life and Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi, Oxford University Press, 2002, p. 31, Ollivant was then forty-eight years old.
- ^ The Times. No. 36718. London. 18 March 1902. p. 10.
{{cite news}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) template uses deprecated parameter(s) (help) - ^ "No. 27424". The London Gazette. 11 April 1902.
- ^ Mentioned in Time magazine article, August 30, 1926[permanent dead link]
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