Sir Edward Charles Kayll Ollivant (7 February 1846 – 24 December 1928) was a senior member of the Indian Civil Service. He had notable interactions with both Mahatma Gandhi and Muhammed Ali Jinnah.
Ollivant arrived in India in 1881.Mentioned in The Nursing Record and Hospital World 7 October 1899 accessed at Royal College of Nursing 3 August 2006 In 1892, he had a disagreement in Rajkot with Gandhi, Chronology of M.K. Gandhi, South African History Online who was then a young barrister.Wolpert, Gandhi's Passion : The Life and Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi, Oxford University Press, 2002, p. 31 The incident resulted in Gandhi being pushed out of a room, and ill feelings about this dispute were apparently a factor in Gandhi's departure for South Africa in 1893.
Ollivant also offered to hire Muhammed Ali Jinnah at 1,500 rupees per month, and was notably turned down.
Ollivant was a judicial member of the Council of the Governor of Bombay until April 1902, and a director of the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway. He was knighted as a Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (KCIE) in 1892.Great Britain. India Office
See also Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote, Governor of Bombay (1900–1903)
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