George Everest
1790–1866
Military engineer. Educated at Great Marlow and Woolwich military schools. Achieved the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the army. Superintendent of the trigonometrical survey of India, 1823–43. Knighted, 1861. FRS 1827.
Source
DNB.
Bibliography
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
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