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George Everest
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Welsh surveyor and geographer (1790–1866)
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George Everest (1790–1866) was a British explorer, geographer, surveyor, and geodesist. He served in the British Army and was educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. His fields of work included geography, geodesy, and cartography. Everest was a member of the Royal Society and the Royal Geographical Society. He received the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, the title of Knight Bachelor, and was made a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Society.
Born in Crickhowell, Greenwich, and residing in Crickhowell, Everest died in Westminster. He was influenced by William Lambton and is related to Mary Everest Boole. He is described in sources such as the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary and the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition.
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Encyclopedic overview
Sir George Everest (/ˈiːvrɪst/, EEV-rist; 4 July 1790 – 1 December 1866) was a British surveyor and geographer who served as Surveyor General of India from 1830 to 1843.
After a military education, Everest joined the East India Company and arrived in India at the age of 16. He was eventually made an assistant to William Lambton on the Great Trigonometric Survey, and replaced Lambton as superintendent of the survey in 1823. Everest was largely responsible for surveying the meridian arc from the southernmost point of India north to Nepal, a distance of about 2,400 kilometres (1,500 mi), a task that took from 1806 to 1841 to complete. He was made Surveyor General of India in 1830, retiring in 1843 and returning to England.
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