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 Dictionary of Indian Biography D to F

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Date transcribed2011-03-01
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Everest    
First Name(s)  George    
Titles  Sir    
Year of Birth  1790    
Year of Death  1866    
Entry  Surveyor-General of India : born July 4, 1790 : son of Tristram Everest : educated at Great Marlow and Woolwich : went to India in 1806 to the Bengal Artillery : selected by Sir Stamford Raffles to survey Java, 1813-5 : Chief Assistant of the Great Trigonometrical Survey, 1817 : succeeded Colonel Lambton as Superintendent of the Great Trigonometrical Survey, 1823 : F.R.S., 1827 : studied the English ordnance survey : was appointed by the Court of Directors to be Surveyor General of India, 1830 : also engaged in measurements of the great Arc of Meridian of India, 21 degrees in length, from Cape Comorin to the Northern frontier, 1832-41 : Lt-Colonel, 1838 : retired in 1843 : published in 1847 an account of his work on the great Meridional Arc of India between two base lines : Member of the Council of the Royal and Geographical Societies : Fellow of the Astronomical and Royal Asiatic Societies : C.B. : and knighted in 1861 : died Dec. 1, 1866 : Mount Everest, 29.002 feet high, in the Himalayas on the borders of Nipal and Tibet, the highest known mountain in the world, was named after him.     
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