Everything about George Everest totally explained
Colonel Sir George Everest (pronounced 'eevrist') (
4 July,
1790 –
1 December,
1866) was a
British surveyor,
geographer and from 1830 to 1843.
The Welshman was largely responsible for completing the section of the
Great Trigonometric Survey of
India along the meridian arc from the south of India extending north to
Nepal, a distance of approximately 2400 kilometres. The survey was started by
William Lambton in 1806 and lasted several decades.
Mount Everest was named in his honour and surveyed by his successor,
Andrew Waugh.
George Everest was born in the Manor of Gwernvale at
Crickhowell in
Powys, in 1790.
Pronunciation of "Everest"
Sir George Everest's
surname is, even though the mountain named after him —
Mount Everest — is .
Career
In 1818, Everest was appointed as assistant to Colonel
William Lambton, who had started the Great Trigonometrical Survey of the sub-continent in 1806. On Lambton's death in
1823, he succeeded to the post of superintendent of the survey and in 1830 was appointed Surveyor-General of India.
Everest retired in 1843 and returned to live in the
United Kingdom, where he became a
Fellow of the Royal Society. He was knighted in 1861 and in 1862 he was elected Vice-President of the
Royal Geographical Society. He died at Greenwich in 1866 and is buried in
St Andrew's Church, Hove, near
Brighton. His niece, Mary Everest, married mathematician
George Boole.
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