Who is George Everest??

Answer 1

EVEREST, SIR GEORGE (179o1866), British surveyor and geographer, was the son of Tristram Everest of Gwerndale, Brecknockshire, and was born there, on the 4th of July 179o. From school at Marlow he proceeded to the military academy at Woolwich, where he attracted the special notice of the mathematical master, and passed so well in his examinations that he was declared fit for a commission before attaining the necessary age. Having gone to India in 1806 as a cadet in the Bengal Artillery, he was selected by Sir Stamford Raffles to take part in the reconnaissance of Java (1814-1816); and after being employed in various engineering works throughout India, he was appointed in 1818 assistant to Colonel Lambton, the founder of the great trigonometrical survey of that country. In 1823, on Colonel Lambtons death, he succeeded to the post of superintendent of the survey; in 1830 he was appointed by the court of directors of the East India Company surveyor-general of In4ia;, and from that date till. his retirement from the service in 1843 he continued to discharge the laborious duties of both offlces. During the rest of his life he resided in England, where he became 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 honor of knighthood, and in 1862 he was chosen vice-president of the Royal Geographical Society. He died at Greenwich on the 1st of December 1866. The geodetical labors of Sir George Everest rank among the finest achievements of their kind; and more especially his measurement of the meridional arc of India, 111/2 in length, is accounted as unrivalled in the annals of the science. In great,part the Indian survey is what he made it.

His works are purely professional :A paper in vol. i. of the Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society, pointing out a mistake in La Cailles measurement of an arc of the meridian which he had discovered during sick-leave at the Cape of Good Hope; An account of the measurement of the arc of the meridian between the parallels of 18 3 and 24 7, being a continuation of the Grand Meridional Arc of India, as detailed by Lieut.-Col. Lambton in the volumes of the Asiatic Society of Calcutta (London, 1830); An account of the measurement of two sections of life Meridional Arc of Indio, bounded by the parallels of i8 3 15, 24 7 ii, and 20 30 48 (London, 1847).



Colonel Sir George Everest (July 4, 1790 – December 1, 1866) was a Welsh surveyor, geographer and Surveyor-General of India from 1830 to 1843.

He 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 surveyed and named after Everest by his successor Andrew Waugh.

Everest was born at Gwernvale Manor near Crickhowell, in Powys, Wales. He was baptised at St Alfege's Church, Greenwich on January 27, 1791. After attending the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, where he excelled at mathematics, he travelled to India in 1806 as a cadet in the Bengal Artillery. There he was selected by Sir Stamford Raffles to take part in the reconnaissance of Java between 1814 and 1816.

In 1818, Everest was appointed as assistant to Colonel 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 England, 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. Andrews Church, Hove, near Brighton. His niece, Mary Everest, married mathematician George Boole.


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Answer 2

The first man to climb Mt. Everest.

Answer 3

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