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EVEREST, SIR GEORGE (1790—1866)

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EVEREST, See also:SIR See also:GEORGE (1790—1866) , See also:British surveyor. and geographer, was the son of Tristram Everest of Gwerndale, Brecknockshire, and was See also:born there on the 4th of See also:July 1790. From school at Marlow_ he proceeded to the military See also:academy at See also:Woolwich, where he attracted the See also:special See also:notice of the mathematical See also:master, and passed so well in his See also:examinations that he was declared See also:fit for a See also:commission before attaining the necessary See also:age. Having gone to See also:India in 18o6 as a See also:cadet in the See also:Bengal See also:Artillery, he was selected by Sir See also:Stamford See also:Raffles to take See also:part in the See also:reconnaissance of See also:Java (1814–1816) ; and after being employed in various See also:engineering See also:works throughout India, he was appointed in 1818 assistant to See also:Colonel Lambton, the founder of the See also:great trigonometrical survey of that See also:country. In 1823, on Colonel Lambton's See also:death, he succeeded to the See also:post of See also:superintendent of the survey; in 183o he was appointed by the See also:court of See also:directors of the See also:East India See also:Company surveyor-See also:general of Intl is and from that date till his retirement from the service in 1843 he continued to See also:discharge the laborious duties of both offices. During the See also:rest of his See also:life he resided in See also:England, where he became See also:fellow of the Royal Society and an active member of several other scientific associations. In 1861 he was made a C.B. and received the See also:honour of See also:knighthood, and in 1862 he was chosen See also:vice-See also:president of the Royal See also:Geographical Society, He died at See also:Greenwich on the 1st of See also:December 1866. The geodetical labours of Sir George Everest See also:rank among the finest achievements of their See also:kind; and more especially his measurement of the meridional arc of India, 1 i z ° in length, is accounted as unrivalled in the See also:annals of the See also:science. In great,part the See also:Indian survey is what he made it. His works are purely professional:—A See also:paper in vol. i. of the See also:Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society, pointing out a See also:mistake in La Caille's measurement of an arc of the See also:meridian which he had discovered during sick-leave at the Cape of See also:Good See also:Hope; An See also:account of the measurement of the arc of the meridian between the See also:parallels of 18° 3' and 24° 7', being a continuation of the See also:Grand Meridional Arc of India, as detailed by Lieut.-See also:Col. Lambton in the volumes of the See also:Asiatic Society of See also:Calcutta (See also:London, 1830); An account of the measurement of two sections of the Meridional Arc of India bounded by the parallels of 18° 3' 15", 24° 7' II", and 20° 30' 48" (London, 1847).

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