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American academic and social reformer

Charles Eliot Norton
Charles Eliot Norton,
Born	()November 16, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died	October 21, () (aged&#;80) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Resting place	Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge 42°22′15″N71°08′45″W / °N °W / ;
Education	Harvard University
Occupation(s)	Professor, literary scholar

Charles Eliot Norton (November 16, – October 21, ) was an American author, social critic, and Harvard professor of art based in New England.

He was a progressive social reformer and a liberal activist whom many of his contemporaries considered the most cultivated man in the United States.^[1] He was from the same notable Eliot family as the 20th-century poet T.

S. Eliot, who made his career in the United Kingdom.

Early life

See also: Eliot family (America)

Norton was born in in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His father, Andrews Norton (–),