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Dictionary of Indian Biography D to F
Date transcribed | 2011-03-01 | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | Comment | Note 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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A List of eminent persons who served in British India, together with short biographical notes of each
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