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Calculated Shard: 152 (from laksa071)

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curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa152.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

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{"found_url":"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest","crawl_time":1774077163,"first_indexed_time":1376020712,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"org,wikipedia!en,\/wiki\/George_Everest s443","src_root_hash":"17790707453426894952","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"George Everest - Wikipedia","meta_descriptions":[],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\nSir\nGeorge Everest\nKCB\nFRS\nFRAS\nFRGS\nBorn\n4 July 1790\nCrickhowell, Wales\n,\nor\nGreenwich, England\nDied\n1 December 1866 (aged 76)\nLondon, England\nKnown for\nGreat Trigonometric Survey\nof India;\nBeing the eponym of\nMount Everest\nAwards\nMedal of the\nRoyal Astronomical Society\n(1847)\nScientific career\nFields\nGeography\nSir George Everest\n,\nCB\n,\nFRS\n,\nFRAS\n,\nFRGS\n(\n,\nEEV\n-rist\n;\n[\n1\n]\n[\n2\n]\n[\n3\n]\n4 July 1790 – 1 December 1866) was a British surveyor and geographer who served as\nSurveyor General of India\nfrom 1830 to 1843.\nAfter a military education, Everest joined the\nEast India Company\nand arrived in India at the age of 16. He was eventually made an assistant to\nWilliam Lambton\non the\nGreat Trigonometric Survey\n, and replaced Lambton as superintendent of the survey in 1823. Everest was largely responsible for surveying the\nmeridian arc\nfrom the southernmost point of\nIndia\nnorth to\nNepal\n, a distance of about 2,400 kilometres (1,500 mi), a task that took from 1806 to 1841 to complete. He was made Surveyor General of India in 1830, retiring in 1843 and returning to England.\nIn 1865, the\nRoyal Geographical Society\nrenamed Peak XV—at the time only recently identified as the world's highest peak—to\nMount Everest\nin his honour.\n[\n4\n]\nAndrew Scott Waugh\n, his protégé and successor as surveyor general, had been responsible for putting his name forward in 1856. Everest's name was used as a compromise due to the difficulty of choosing between multiple local names for the mountain. He initially objected to the honour, as he had had nothing to do with its discovery and believed his name was not easily written or pronounced in\nHindi\n.\n[\n5\n]\n[\n6\n]\n[\n7\n]\nEverest was born on 4 July 1790, but his birthplace is uncertain.\n[\n8\n]\n[\n9\n]\nHe was baptised at\nSt Alfege Church\nin\nGreenwich, London\n, on 27 January 1791.\n[\n10\n]\nHe was born either at Greenwich or at Gwernvale Manor, his family's estate near\nCrickhowell\n,\nBrecknockshire\n(now part of\nPowys\n) in\nWales\n.\n[\n11\n]\n[\n12\n]\nEverest was the eldest son and third of six children born to Lucetta Mary (née Smith) and William Tristram Everest. His father was a solicitor and\njustice of the peace\n, part of a \"Greenwich family of long standing\", and was successful enough to acquire a large estate in\nsouth Wales\n. His grandfather John Everest, the son of a butcher, was the first in the family to enter the legal profession. The Everest family in Greenwich can be traced at least as far back as the late 1600s, when Tristram Everest–John's great-grandfather–was a butcher in Church Street.\n[\n8\n]\nEverest was educated at the\nRoyal Military College\nin\nMarlow, Buckinghamshire\n, followed by a year at the\nRoyal Military Academy, Woolwich\n, the military engineers' and artillery training college. He joined the\nEast India Company\nas a cadet in 1806 (before he had reached the required age of 16\n[\n13\n]\n). He was commissioned as a\nsecond lieutenant\nin the\nBengal Artillery\n, and sailed for\nIndia\nin the same year.\n[\n14\n]\nEverest was a\nFreemason\n[\n13\n]\nand initiated on an unknown date in Neptune Lodge,\nPenang\n, under the authority of the\nUnited Grand Lodge of England\n. After returning to England, he joined Prince of Wales' Lodge, London, on 20 February 1829.\n[\n15\n]\nEarly career in India\n[\nedit\n]\nLittle is known about Everest's earliest years in India, but when he first arrived in the country at 16 years old he showed a talent for mathematics and astronomy. He was seconded to\nJava\nin 1814, where Lieutenant-Governor\nStamford Raffles\nappointed him to survey the island.\n[\n13\n]\nEverest returned to Bengal in 1816, where he improved British knowledge of the\nGanges\nand the\nHooghly River\n. He later surveyed a\nsemaphore\nline from\nCalcutta\nto\nBenares\n, covering approximately 400 miles (640 km). Everest's work came to the attention of Colonel\nWilliam Lambton\n, the leader of the\nGreat Trigonometrical Survey\n(GTS), who appointed him as his chief assistant. He joined Lambton at\nHyderabad, India\nin 1818, where he was in the process of surveying a\nmeridian arc\nnorthward from\nCape Commorin\n. He was responsible for much of the fieldwork, but then in 1820 contracted\nmalaria\n, necessitating a period of recovery spent at the\nCape of Good Hope\nin\nSouth Africa\n.\n[\n14\n]\nRecovering from malaria, Everest returned to India in 1821. He succeeded Lambton as superintendent of the GTS upon Lambton's death in 1823, and during the following years extended his predecessor's efforts on the arc up to\nSironj\n, in present-day\nMadhya Pradesh\n. Everest was prone to suffer from poor health, however, and the effects of a bout of fever and rheumatism left him half paralysed. He returned to England in 1825, where he spent the following five years recuperating. During that time, Everest was elected as a\nFellow of the Royal Society\nin March 1827. Most of his free time was spent lobbying the East India Company for better equipment and studying the methods used by the\nOrdnance Survey\n; he frequently corresponded with\nThomas Frederick Colby\n.\n[\n14\n]\nHe became acquainted with Indian thought, according to his niece Mary Boole:\n[\n16\n]\nMy uncle, George Everest, was sent to India in 1806 at the age of sixteen. [...] the boy went out ignorant, un-spoiled and fresh. He made the acquaintance of a learned Brahman who taught him—not the details of his own ritual, as European missionaries do, but—the essential factor in all true religion, the secret of how man may hold communion with the Infinite Unknown.\nIt is very likely he introduced Indian thought to others as well:\nSome time about 1825, he came to England for two or three years, and made a fast and lifelong friendship with\nHerschel\nand with\nBabbage\n, who was then quite young.(.) My uncle returned from India. He never interfered with anyone's religious beliefs or customs. But no one under his influence could continue to believe in anything in the Bible being specially sacred, except the two elements which it has in common with other sacred books: the knowledge of our relation to others and of man's power to hold direct converse with the unseen truth.\nSurveyor General of India\n[\nedit\n]\nIn June 1830, Everest returned to India to continue his work on the GTS, and was simultaneously appointed\nSurveyor General of India\n. The arc from Cape Commorin to the northern border of British India was finally completed in 1841, under the supervision of\nAndrew Scott Waugh\n. To his dismay, much of his time was spent on administrative concerns, as well as combating criticism from home. The East India Company had provisionally appointed Thomas Jervis as Everest's successor, and Jervis subsequently delivered a series of lectures to the Royal Society on the perceived deficiencies of Everest's methods.\nIn response, Everest penned a series of open letters to\nPrince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex\n, the society's president, in which he lambasted the society \"for meddling in matters of which they know little\". Jervis withdrew from consideration, and Everest successfully secured the appointment of his protégé Waugh as his successor. He resigned in November 1842 and his commission was formally revoked in December 1843, at which point he returned to England.\n[\n14\n]\nIn London on 11 November 1846 Everest married Emma Wing, aged 23, of\nHampstead, London\n.\n[\n17\n]\nThey had six children.\n[\n13\n]\nEverest's grave,\nSt Andrew's Church, Hove\n,\nEast Sussex\n.\nIn 1847, Everest published\nAn Account of the Measurement of Two Sections of the Meridional Arc of India\n, for which he was awarded a medal by the\nRoyal Astronomical Society\n. He was later elected to fellowship of the\nRoyal Asiatic Society\nand the\nRoyal Geographical Society\n. Everest was promoted to\ncolonel\nin 1854, made a\nCommander of the Order of the Bath\nin February 1861,\n[\n18\n]\nand created a\nKnight Bachelor\nin March 1861.\n[\n19\n]\nHe died at his home in\nHyde Park Gardens\non 1 December 1866, and was buried in\nSt Andrew's Church, Hove\nnear\nBrighton\n.\n[\n14\n]\nNaming of Mount Everest\n[\nedit\n]\nGeorge Everest had no direct connection with the\nmountain which bears his name\n, which he never saw. He was, however, responsible for hiring\nAndrew Scott Waugh\n, who made the first formal observations of the mountain, and\nRadhanath Sikdar\n, who calculated its height. Before its significance was realised, Mount Everest was originally known as Peak \"B\" and later as Peak XV. In March 1856, Waugh wrote to the\nRoyal Geographical Society\nto announce that the mountain was believed to be the highest in the world, and proposed that it be named \"after my illustrious predecessor\", as it was \"without any local name that we can discover\" – the \"native appellation, if it has any, will not very likely be ascertained before we are allowed to penetrate into Nepal\". There were in fact several native names among the\nNepalese\nand\nTibetans\n, but those areas were closed off to the British at the time and people living further to the south of the Himalayas did not have a specific name for the peak. In the decade after 1856, Waugh's proposal was widely debated by the Royal Geographical Society and similar bodies. Other scholars of India put forward native names that they believed to be correct, such as\nBrian Houghton Hodgson\n's \"Deva-dhunga\" and\nHermann Schlagintweit\n's \"Gaurisankar\". Everest himself objected to his name being used, as \"the native of India\" could not pronounce it and it could not be easily written in\nHindi\n. Nonetheless, in 1865 the society officially settled on \"Mount Everest\" as the name.\n[\n20\n]\nEverest had several siblings, including two younger brothers. George's first younger brother was Robert Everest, chaplain to the East India Company and author of\nA Journey Through the United States and Part of Canada\n.\n[\n21\n]\nHis second (his youngest brother) was the Thomas Roupell Everest, the father of Mary Everest and a lay\nhomoeopath\n. George Everest's third child, Ethel Everest, was an associate of\nEmma Cons\nand friend of\nLilian Baylis\n.\n[\n22\n]\nShe provided financial support for the founding of\nMorley College\nin south London.\n[\n23\n]\nOne of Everest's sons, Lancelot Feilding Everest, was educated at\nHarrow School\nand\nTrinity College, Cambridge\n, and was called to\nthe Bar\nby\nLincoln's Inn\n. He practised as a barrister in chambers in London and was also the principal author of\nThe Law of Estoppel\n.\n[\n24\n]\nLancelot's eldest son, Cyril Feilding Everest, enlisted in the Canadian Infantry on 17 November 1914 and was killed in action on 9 October 1916 at the\nBattle of the Somme\n.\n[\n25\n]\n[\n26\n]\nEverest's niece,\nMary Everest\n, married mathematician\nGeorge Boole\nin Gloucestershire on 11 September 1855.\n[\n27\n]\n[\n28\n]\nIn spite of the absence of formal training, Mary was a fine mathematician in her own right, as was one of her daughters,\nAlicia Boole Stott\n. Alicia's son, Leonard Boole Stott, studied medicine and became a pioneer in the treatment and control of\ntuberculosis\n, work for which he was later appointed an\nOBE\n[\n29\n]\nMary Boole's daughter Margaret was the mother of Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor\nOM\n, a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, a renowned mathematician and physicist, and a major figure in fluid dynamics and wave theory.\n[\n30\n]\nSir George Everest house in Mussoorie, India\n[\nedit\n]\nPark House from above\nSir George Everest's House and Laboratory, also known as Park House\nEverest owned a house in\nMussoorie, India\nfor about 11 years.\n[\n31\n]\nHe purchased it, sight unseen, from General William Sampson Whish (1787–1853).\n[\n32\n]\nBuilt in 1832, the house is known today as Sir George Everest's House and Laboratory, or Park House. The house is in Park Estate about 6 kilometres (4 mi) west of Gandhi Chowk \/ Library Bazaar (the west end of Mall Road in Mussoorie). The location has panoramic views of the\nDoon Valley\non one side and the Aglar River valley and the\nHimalayan Range\nto the north. After renovation at a cost of\nRs\n23.71\ncrore\n, the house was opened as a museum in December 2021.\n[\n33\n]\n^\nOlausson, Lena; Sangster, Catherine M. (2006).\nOxford BBC guide to pronunciation: the essential handbook of the spoken word\n. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 124.\nISBN\n \n978-0-19-280710-6\n.\n^\nClaypole, Jonty (Director); Kunzru, Hari (Presenter) (2003).\nMapping Everest\n(TV Documentary). London: BBC Television.\n^\nDean, Riaz (2019).\nMapping The Great Game: Explorers, Spies & Maps in Nineteenth-century Asia\n. Oxford: Casemate (UK). p. 100.\nISBN\n \n978-1-61200-814-1\n.\n^\nWallace, Colin.\n\"Mount Everest – The British Story\"\n. Archived from\nthe original\non 25 September 2015\n. Retrieved\n2 November\n2015\n.\n^\nBiswas, Soutik (20 October 2003).\n\"The man who 'discovered' Everest\"\n.\nBBC News\n. Retrieved\n9 August\n2016\n.\n^\nSee report in 'The Illustrated London News', 15 August 1857\n^\nRam Copal Sanyal, ed. (1894),\nReminiscences and anecdotes of great men of India: both official and non-official for the last one hundred years\n, p. 25\n^\na\nb\n\"George Everest was born on 4 July 1790 but the location is open to doubt. This uncertainty as to his birthplace arises because his father William Tristram Everest had an estate near Crickhowell in south\nWales\nand some reference works suggest he was born there. [...] George's baptismal certificate certainly indicates that he was baptized in Greenwich but although the certificate also bears his date of birth it does not indicate the locality.\"\nSmith, James R. (2015). \"Sir George Everest\". In Martin, Geoffrey (ed.).\nGeographers: Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 15\n. Bloomsbury Publishing.\nISBN\n \n9781474226653\n.\n^\nSalkeld, Audrey (\nAmerican Alpine Club\n) -\nThe American alpine journal\n. 32.1990. p. 71.\nISBN\n \n1933056371\nRetrieved 18 November 2017\n^\n\"Gwernvale Manor Hotel\"\n.\nParks and Gardens UK\n. Archived from\nthe original\non 1 December 2017\n. Retrieved\n18 November\n2017\n.\n^\nAhluwalia, H. P. S. (2001)\nThe Everest within\n. Hemkunt Press. p. 13.\nISBN\n \n8170103096\nRetrieved 18 November 2017\n^\nBBC\n(7 March 2000)\nCelebrating Wales on top of the world\n.\n^\na\nb\nc\nd\nSmith, James R. (1992).\n\"Sir George Everest, F.R.S. (1790–1866)\"\n.\nNotes and Records of the Royal Society of London\n.\n46\n(1):\n89–\n102.\ndoi\n:\n10.1098\/rsnr.1992.0005\n.\nISSN\n \n0035-9149\n.\nJSTOR\n \n531442\n.\n^\na\nb\nc\nd\ne\nBaigent, Elizabeth. \"Everest, Sir George\".\nOxford Dictionary of National Biography\n(online ed.). Oxford University Press.\ndoi\n:\n10.1093\/ref:odnb\/9003\n.\n(Subscription,\nWikipedia Library\naccess or\nUK public library membership\nrequired.)\n^\n\"Freemasons and the Royal Society\"\n. Gila Valley Lodge No 9. 28 June 2010\n. Retrieved\n25 February\n2018\n.\n^\nMary Everest Boole (1901).\nIndian Thought and Western Science in the Nineteenth Century\n. Library Genesis. The Ceylon National Review.\n^\n\"St George, Hanover Square 1846–1847\"\n. Ancestry.com.\n^\n\"No. 7097\"\n.\nThe Edinburgh Gazette\n. 1 March 1861. p. 289.\n^\n\"No. 22493\"\n.\nThe London Gazette\n. 19 March 1861. p. 1241.\n^\nThe Naming of Mount Everest\n. Montana State University website. Accessed 11 January 2023.\n^\nEverest, Robert.\nA Journey Through the United States and Part of Canada\n. John Chapman: King William Street, Strand, London, 1855.\n^\nSchafer, Elizabeth (2006)\nLilian Baylis: A Biography\n. Univ of Hertfordshire Press. p. 76.\nISBN\n \n9781902806648\n^\nRichards, Denis (2013)\nOffspring of the Vic: A History of Morley College\n. Routledge. p. 60.\nISBN\n \n9781135030858\n^\nEverest, Lancelot Feilding.\nThe Law of Estoppel\n. Stevens and Sons: 119, Chancery Lane, London, 1881.\n^\n\"Canadian Great War Project\"\n. Archived from\nthe original\non 27 November 2020\n. Retrieved\n1 July\n2016\n.\n^\n\"Every Man Remembered – Soldier Profile Private Cyril Fielding Everest\"\n. Archived from\nthe original\non 30 July 2014.\n^\nCreese, Mary (2004). \"Boole, Mary\".\nODNB\n.\nOxford Dictionary of National Biography\n(online ed.). Oxford University Press.\ndoi\n:\n10.1093\/ref:odnb\/38817\n.\n(Subscription,\nWikipedia Library\naccess or\nUK public library membership\nrequired.)\n^\n\"Gloucestershire, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1938\"\n.\nsearch.ancestry.co.uk\n. Retrieved\n28 January\n2016\n.\n^\nCreese, Mary R. S. (1998).\nLadies in the Laboratory? American and British Women in Science, 1800–1900: A Survey of their Contributions to Research\n. The Scarecrow Press, Inc. p. 199.\nISBN\n \n9780810832879\n.\n^\nBatchelor, George (1994).\nThe Life and Legacy of G.I. Taylor\n. Cambridge University Press. p. 25.\nISBN\n \n0521461219\n.\n^\nNigam, Devesh (2002).\nTourism, environment, and development of Garhwal Himalaya\n(1. ed.). New Delhi, India: Mittal Publications. p. 54.\nISBN\n \n81-7099-870-0\n.\n^\nPhillimore, Reginald (July 1955). \"Stokes' School, Mussoorie\".\nThe Indian Archives\n.\nIX\n(2). New Delhi:\nNational Archives of India\n(published December 1955): 101.\n^\nJain, Anmol (8 December 2021).\n\"Renovated Sir George Everest House in Mussoorie opens to public\"\n.\nThe Times of India\n.\nJohn Keay. 2000.\nThe Great Arc\n. London: HarperCollins.\nISBN\n \n0-00-257062-9\n.\nJ. R. Smith. 1999.\nEverest: The Man and the Mountain\n. Caithness: Whittles Publishing.\nISBN\n \n1-870325-72-9\n.\nDean, Riaz (2019).\nMapping the Great Game: Explorers, Spies and Maps in 19th-Century Asia\n. Oxford, UK: Casemate.\nISBN\n \n978-1-61200-815-8\n.\nOCLC\n \n1127908291\n.\nChisholm, Hugh\n, ed. (1911).\n\"Everest, Sir George\" \n.\nEncyclopædia Britannica\n(11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.\nhttps:\/\/www.explortheinfinity.com\/george-everests-house\/\nArchived\n6 February 2020 at the\nWayback Machine\nGeorge Everest Travel Guide, History\nPhotographs of Sir George Everest's house and laboratory, in Mussoorie, India\nThe Guardian news on Mount Everest name\nGeorge Everest\nat nndb.com\nhttps:\/\/www.historychannel.com.au\/this-day-in-history\/150th-anniversary-death-sir-george-everest\/\nArchived\n1 December 2017 at the\nWayback Machine\nhttp:\/\/www.themodernantiquarian.com\/site\/530\/gwernvale.html\nhttp:\/\/www.megalithic.co.uk\/article.php?sid=4060","attrs_markdown":"[Jump to content](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#bodyContent)\n\nMain menu\n\nMain menu\n\nmove to sidebar\n\nhide\n\nNavigation\n\n- [Main page](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Main_Page \"Visit the main page [z]\")\n- [Contents](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Contents \"Guides to browsing Wikipedia\")\n- [Current events](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Portal:Current_events \"Articles related to current events\")\n- [Random article](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:Random \"Visit a randomly selected article [x]\")\n- [About Wikipedia](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:About \"Learn about Wikipedia and how it works\")\n- [Contact us](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Contact_us \"How to contact Wikipedia\")\n\nContribute\n\n- [Help](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Help:Contents \"Guidance on how to use and edit Wikipedia\")\n- [Learn to edit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Help:Introduction \"Learn how to edit Wikipedia\")\n- [Community portal](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Community_portal \"The hub for editors\")\n- [Recent changes](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:RecentChanges \"A list of recent changes to Wikipedia [r]\")\n- [Upload file](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:File_upload_wizard \"Add images or other media for use on Wikipedia\")\n- [Special pages](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:SpecialPages \"A list of all special pages [q]\")\n\n[![](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/static\/images\/icons\/enwiki-25.svg) ![Wikipedia](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/static\/images\/mobile\/copyright\/wikipedia-wordmark-en-25.svg) ![The Free Encyclopedia](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/static\/images\/mobile\/copyright\/wikipedia-tagline-en-25.svg)](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Main_Page)\n\n[Search](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:Search \"Search Wikipedia [f]\")\n\nAppearance\n\n- [Donate](https:\/\/donate.wikimedia.org\/?wmf_source=donate&wmf_medium=sidebar&wmf_campaign=en.wikipedia.org&uselang=en)\n- [Create account](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Special:CreateAccount&returnto=George+Everest \"You are encouraged to create an account and log in; however, it is not mandatory\")\n- [Log in](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=George+Everest \"You're encouraged to log in; however, it's not mandatory. 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[FRGS](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Geographical_Society \"Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society\") |   |\n|---|---|\n| [![](https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/a\/ad\/George_Everest_-_Maull_%26_Polyblank.jpg\/250px-George_Everest_-_Maull_%26_Polyblank.jpg)](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:George_Everest_-_Maull_%26_Polyblank.jpg) |   |\n| Born | (1790-07-04)4 July 1790 [Crickhowell, Wales](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crickhowell \"Crickhowell\"), *or* [Greenwich, England](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Greenwich,_England \"Greenwich, England\") |\n| Died | (1866-12-01)1 December 1866 (aged 76) [London, England](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/London,_England \"London, England\") |\n| Known for | [Great Trigonometric Survey](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_Trigonometric_Survey \"Great Trigonometric Survey\") of India;  Being the eponym of [Mount Everest](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mount_Everest \"Mount Everest\") |\n| Awards | Medal of the [Royal Astronomical Society](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Royal_Astronomical_Society \"Royal Astronomical Society\") (1847) |\n| **Scientific career** |   |\n| Fields | [Geography](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Geography \"Geography\") |\n\n**Sir George Everest**, [CB](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Companion_of_the_Order_of_the_Bath \"Companion of the Order of the Bath\"), [FRS](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society \"Fellow of the Royal Society\"), [FRAS](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Astronomical_Society \"Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society\"), [FRGS](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Geographical_Society \"Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society\") ([\/ˈiːvrɪst\/](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Help:IPA\/English \"Help:IPA\/English\"), [*EEV\\-rist*](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key \"Help:Pronunciation respelling key\");[\\[1\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-1)[\\[2\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-2)[\\[3\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-:0-3) 4 July 1790 – 1 December 1866) was a British surveyor and geographer who served as [Surveyor General of India](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Surveyor_General_of_India \"Surveyor General of India\") from 1830 to 1843.\n\nAfter a military education, Everest joined the [East India Company](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/East_India_Company \"East India Company\") and arrived in India at the age of 16. He was eventually made an assistant to [William Lambton](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Lambton \"William Lambton\") on the [Great Trigonometric Survey](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_Trigonometric_Survey \"Great Trigonometric Survey\"), and replaced Lambton as superintendent of the survey in 1823. Everest was largely responsible for surveying the [meridian arc](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meridian_arc \"Meridian arc\") from the southernmost point of [India](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/India \"India\") north to [Nepal](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nepal \"Nepal\"), a distance of about 2,400 kilometres (1,500 mi), a task that took from 1806 to 1841 to complete. He was made Surveyor General of India in 1830, retiring in 1843 and returning to England.\n\nIn 1865, the [Royal Geographical Society](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Royal_Geographical_Society \"Royal Geographical Society\") renamed Peak XV—at the time only recently identified as the world's highest peak—to [Mount Everest](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mount_Everest \"Mount Everest\") in his honour.[\\[4\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-4) [Andrew Scott Waugh](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andrew_Scott_Waugh \"Andrew Scott Waugh\"), his protégé and successor as surveyor general, had been responsible for putting his name forward in 1856. Everest's name was used as a compromise due to the difficulty of choosing between multiple local names for the mountain. He initially objected to the honour, as he had had nothing to do with its discovery and believed his name was not easily written or pronounced in [Hindi](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hindi \"Hindi\").[\\[5\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-BBC_mwde-5)[\\[6\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-6)[\\[7\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-7)\n\n## Biography\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=George_Everest&action=edit&section=1 \"Edit section: Biography\")\\]\n\nEverest was born on 4 July 1790, but his birthplace is uncertain.[\\[8\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-r1-8)[\\[9\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-9) He was baptised at [St Alfege Church](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/St_Alfege_Church,_Greenwich \"St Alfege Church, Greenwich\") in [Greenwich, London](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Greenwich \"Greenwich\"), on 27 January 1791.[\\[10\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-10) He was born either at Greenwich or at Gwernvale Manor, his family's estate near [Crickhowell](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crickhowell \"Crickhowell\"), [Brecknockshire](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brecknockshire \"Brecknockshire\") (now part of [Powys](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Powys \"Powys\")) in [Wales](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wales \"Wales\").[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-11)[\\[12\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-12) Everest was the eldest son and third of six children born to Lucetta Mary (née Smith) and William Tristram Everest. His father was a solicitor and [justice of the peace](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Justice_of_the_peace \"Justice of the peace\"), part of a \"Greenwich family of long standing\", and was successful enough to acquire a large estate in [south Wales](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Wales \"South Wales\"). His grandfather John Everest, the son of a butcher, was the first in the family to enter the legal profession. The Everest family in Greenwich can be traced at least as far back as the late 1600s, when Tristram Everest–John's great-grandfather–was a butcher in Church Street.[\\[8\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-r1-8)\n\nEverest was educated at the [Royal Military College](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Royal_Military_College,_Sandhurst \"Royal Military College, Sandhurst\") in [Marlow, Buckinghamshire](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marlow,_Buckinghamshire \"Marlow, Buckinghamshire\"), followed by a year at the [Royal Military Academy, Woolwich](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Royal_Military_Academy,_Woolwich \"Royal Military Academy, Woolwich\"), the military engineers' and artillery training college. He joined the [East India Company](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/East_India_Company \"East India Company\") as a cadet in 1806 (before he had reached the required age of 16[\\[13\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-jrs-13)). He was commissioned as a [second lieutenant](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Second_lieutenant \"Second lieutenant\") in the [Bengal Artillery](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bengal_Artillery \"Bengal Artillery\"), and sailed for [India](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/India \"India\") in the same year.[\\[14\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-odnb-14)\n\nEverest was a [Freemason](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Freemason \"Freemason\")[\\[13\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-jrs-13) and initiated on an unknown date in Neptune Lodge, [Penang](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Penang \"Penang\"), under the authority of the [United Grand Lodge of England](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Grand_Lodge_of_England \"United Grand Lodge of England\"). After returning to England, he joined Prince of Wales' Lodge, London, on 20 February 1829.[\\[15\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-Gila_Valley-15)\n\n### Early career in India\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=George_Everest&action=edit&section=2 \"Edit section: Early career in India\")\\]\n\nLittle is known about Everest's earliest years in India, but when he first arrived in the country at 16 years old he showed a talent for mathematics and astronomy. He was seconded to [Java](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/British_Java \"British Java\") in 1814, where Lieutenant-Governor [Stamford Raffles](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stamford_Raffles \"Stamford Raffles\") appointed him to survey the island.[\\[13\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-jrs-13) Everest returned to Bengal in 1816, where he improved British knowledge of the [Ganges](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ganges \"Ganges\") and the [Hooghly River](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hooghly_River \"Hooghly River\"). He later surveyed a [semaphore](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Semaphore \"Semaphore\") line from [Calcutta](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Calcutta \"Calcutta\") to [Benares](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benares \"Benares\"), covering approximately 400 miles (640 km). Everest's work came to the attention of Colonel [William Lambton](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Lambton \"William Lambton\"), the leader of the [Great Trigonometrical Survey](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_Trigonometrical_Survey \"Great Trigonometrical Survey\") (GTS), who appointed him as his chief assistant. He joined Lambton at [Hyderabad, India](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hyderabad \"Hyderabad\") in 1818, where he was in the process of surveying a [meridian arc](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meridian_arc \"Meridian arc\") northward from [Cape Commorin](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cape_Commorin \"Cape Commorin\"). He was responsible for much of the fieldwork, but then in 1820 contracted [malaria](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Malaria \"Malaria\"), necessitating a period of recovery spent at the [Cape of Good Hope](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cape_of_Good_Hope \"Cape of Good Hope\") in [South Africa](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Africa \"South Africa\").[\\[14\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-odnb-14)\n\nRecovering from malaria, Everest returned to India in 1821. He succeeded Lambton as superintendent of the GTS upon Lambton's death in 1823, and during the following years extended his predecessor's efforts on the arc up to [Sironj](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sironj \"Sironj\"), in present-day [Madhya Pradesh](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Madhya_Pradesh \"Madhya Pradesh\"). Everest was prone to suffer from poor health, however, and the effects of a bout of fever and rheumatism left him half paralysed. He returned to England in 1825, where he spent the following five years recuperating. During that time, Everest was elected as a [Fellow of the Royal Society](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society \"Fellow of the Royal Society\") in March 1827. Most of his free time was spent lobbying the East India Company for better equipment and studying the methods used by the [Ordnance Survey](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ordnance_Survey \"Ordnance Survey\"); he frequently corresponded with [Thomas Frederick Colby](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Frederick_Colby \"Thomas Frederick Colby\").[\\[14\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-odnb-14)\n\nHe became acquainted with Indian thought, according to his niece Mary Boole:[\\[16\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-16)\n\n> My uncle, George Everest, was sent to India in 1806 at the age of sixteen. \\[...\\] the boy went out ignorant, un-spoiled and fresh. He made the acquaintance of a learned Brahman who taught him—not the details of his own ritual, as European missionaries do, but—the essential factor in all true religion, the secret of how man may hold communion with the Infinite Unknown.\n\nIt is very likely he introduced Indian thought to others as well:\n\n> Some time about 1825, he came to England for two or three years, and made a fast and lifelong friendship with [Herschel](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Herschel \"John Herschel\") and with [Babbage](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Babbage \"Charles Babbage\"), who was then quite young.(.) My uncle returned from India. He never interfered with anyone's religious beliefs or customs. But no one under his influence could continue to believe in anything in the Bible being specially sacred, except the two elements which it has in common with other sacred books: the knowledge of our relation to others and of man's power to hold direct converse with the unseen truth.\n\n### Surveyor General of India\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=George_Everest&action=edit&section=3 \"Edit section: Surveyor General of India\")\\]\n\nIn June 1830, Everest returned to India to continue his work on the GTS, and was simultaneously appointed [Surveyor General of India](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Surveyor_General_of_India \"Surveyor General of India\"). The arc from Cape Commorin to the northern border of British India was finally completed in 1841, under the supervision of [Andrew Scott Waugh](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andrew_Scott_Waugh \"Andrew Scott Waugh\"). To his dismay, much of his time was spent on administrative concerns, as well as combating criticism from home. The East India Company had provisionally appointed Thomas Jervis as Everest's successor, and Jervis subsequently delivered a series of lectures to the Royal Society on the perceived deficiencies of Everest's methods.\n\nIn response, Everest penned a series of open letters to [Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prince_Augustus_Frederick,_Duke_of_Sussex \"Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex\"), the society's president, in which he lambasted the society \"for meddling in matters of which they know little\". Jervis withdrew from consideration, and Everest successfully secured the appointment of his protégé Waugh as his successor. He resigned in November 1842 and his commission was formally revoked in December 1843, at which point he returned to England.[\\[14\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-odnb-14)\n\n### Later life\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=George_Everest&action=edit&section=4 \"Edit section: Later life\")\\]\n\nIn London on 11 November 1846 Everest married Emma Wing, aged 23, of [Hampstead, London](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hampstead \"Hampstead\").[\\[17\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-17) They had six children.[\\[13\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-jrs-13)\n\n[![](https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/6\/67\/G_Everest_grave_Hove.jpg\/250px-G_Everest_grave_Hove.jpg)](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:G_Everest_grave_Hove.jpg)\n\nEverest's grave, [St Andrew's Church, Hove](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/St_Andrew%27s_Church,_Church_Road,_Hove \"St Andrew's Church, Church Road, Hove\"), [East Sussex](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/East_Sussex \"East Sussex\").\n\nIn 1847, Everest published *An Account of the Measurement of Two Sections of the Meridional Arc of India*, for which he was awarded a medal by the [Royal Astronomical Society](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Royal_Astronomical_Society \"Royal Astronomical Society\"). He was later elected to fellowship of the [Royal Asiatic Society](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Royal_Asiatic_Society_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland \"Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland\") and the [Royal Geographical Society](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Royal_Geographical_Society \"Royal Geographical Society\"). Everest was promoted to [colonel](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colonel \"Colonel\") in 1854, made a [Commander of the Order of the Bath](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_Bath \"Commander of the Order of the Bath\") in February 1861,[\\[18\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-18) and created a [Knight Bachelor](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Knight_Bachelor \"Knight Bachelor\") in March 1861.[\\[19\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-19)\n\nHe died at his home in [Hyde Park Gardens](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hyde_Park_Gardens \"Hyde Park Gardens\") on 1 December 1866, and was buried in [St Andrew's Church, Hove](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/St_Andrew%27s_Church,_Church_Road,_Hove \"St Andrew's Church, Church Road, Hove\") near [Brighton](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brighton \"Brighton\").[\\[14\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-odnb-14)\n\n## Naming of Mount Everest\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=George_Everest&action=edit&section=5 \"Edit section: Naming of Mount Everest\")\\]\n\nGeorge Everest had no direct connection with the [mountain which bears his name](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mount_Everest \"Mount Everest\"), which he never saw. He was, however, responsible for hiring [Andrew Scott Waugh](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andrew_Scott_Waugh \"Andrew Scott Waugh\"), who made the first formal observations of the mountain, and [Radhanath Sikdar](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Radhanath_Sikdar \"Radhanath Sikdar\"), who calculated its height. Before its significance was realised, Mount Everest was originally known as Peak \"B\" and later as Peak XV. In March 1856, Waugh wrote to the [Royal Geographical Society](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Royal_Geographical_Society \"Royal Geographical Society\") to announce that the mountain was believed to be the highest in the world, and proposed that it be named \"after my illustrious predecessor\", as it was \"without any local name that we can discover\" – the \"native appellation, if it has any, will not very likely be ascertained before we are allowed to penetrate into Nepal\". There were in fact several native names among the [Nepalese](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nepal \"Nepal\") and [Tibetans](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tibet \"Tibet\"), but those areas were closed off to the British at the time and people living further to the south of the Himalayas did not have a specific name for the peak. In the decade after 1856, Waugh's proposal was widely debated by the Royal Geographical Society and similar bodies. Other scholars of India put forward native names that they believed to be correct, such as [Brian Houghton Hodgson](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brian_Houghton_Hodgson \"Brian Houghton Hodgson\")'s \"Deva-dhunga\" and [Hermann Schlagintweit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hermann_Schlagintweit \"Hermann Schlagintweit\")'s \"Gaurisankar\". Everest himself objected to his name being used, as \"the native of India\" could not pronounce it and it could not be easily written in [Hindi](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hindi \"Hindi\"). Nonetheless, in 1865 the society officially settled on \"Mount Everest\" as the name.[\\[20\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-20)\n\n## Family\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=George_Everest&action=edit&section=6 \"Edit section: Family\")\\]\n\nEverest had several siblings, including two younger brothers. George's first younger brother was Robert Everest, chaplain to the East India Company and author of *A Journey Through the United States and Part of Canada*.[\\[21\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-21) His second (his youngest brother) was the Thomas Roupell Everest, the father of Mary Everest and a lay [homoeopath](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Homeopathy \"Homeopathy\"). George Everest's third child, Ethel Everest, was an associate of [Emma Cons](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emma_Cons \"Emma Cons\") and friend of [Lilian Baylis](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lilian_Baylis \"Lilian Baylis\").[\\[22\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-22) She provided financial support for the founding of [Morley College](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Morley_College \"Morley College\") in south London.[\\[23\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-23)\n\nOne of Everest's sons, Lancelot Feilding Everest, was educated at [Harrow School](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harrow_School \"Harrow School\") and [Trinity College, Cambridge](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trinity_College,_Cambridge \"Trinity College, Cambridge\"), and was called to [the Bar](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bar_\\(law\\) \"Bar (law)\") by [Lincoln's Inn](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lincoln%27s_Inn \"Lincoln's Inn\"). He practised as a barrister in chambers in London and was also the principal author of *The Law of Estoppel*.[\\[24\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-24) Lancelot's eldest son, Cyril Feilding Everest, enlisted in the Canadian Infantry on 17 November 1914 and was killed in action on 9 October 1916 at the [Battle of the Somme](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_the_Somme \"Battle of the Somme\").[\\[25\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-25)[\\[26\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-26)\n\nEverest's niece, [Mary Everest](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mary_Everest_Boole \"Mary Everest Boole\"), married mathematician [George Boole](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Boole \"George Boole\") in Gloucestershire on 11 September 1855.[\\[27\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-27)[\\[28\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-28) In spite of the absence of formal training, Mary was a fine mathematician in her own right, as was one of her daughters, [Alicia Boole Stott](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alicia_Boole_Stott \"Alicia Boole Stott\"). Alicia's son, Leonard Boole Stott, studied medicine and became a pioneer in the treatment and control of [tuberculosis](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tuberculosis \"Tuberculosis\"), work for which he was later appointed an [OBE](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Order_of_the_British_Empire \"Order of the British Empire\")[\\[29\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-29) Mary Boole's daughter Margaret was the mother of Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor [OM](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Order_of_Merit \"Order of Merit\"), a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, a renowned mathematician and physicist, and a major figure in fluid dynamics and wave theory.[\\[30\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-30)\n\n## Sir George Everest house in Mussoorie, India\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=George_Everest&action=edit&section=7 \"Edit section: Sir George Everest house in Mussoorie, India\")\\]\n\n[![](https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/1\/1f\/George_everest_house.jpg\/250px-George_everest_house.jpg)](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:George_everest_house.jpg)\n\nPark House from above\n\n[![](https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/a\/af\/Park_House_17b.jpg\/250px-Park_House_17b.jpg)](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Park_House_17b.jpg)\n\nSir George Everest's House and Laboratory, also known as Park House\n\nEverest owned a house in [Mussoorie, India](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mussoorie \"Mussoorie\") for about 11 years.[\\[31\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-31) He purchased it, sight unseen, from General William Sampson Whish (1787–1853).[\\[32\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-32) Built in 1832, the house is known today as Sir George Everest's House and Laboratory, or Park House. The house is in Park Estate about 6 kilometres (4 mi) west of Gandhi Chowk \/ Library Bazaar (the west end of Mall Road in Mussoorie). The location has panoramic views of the [Doon Valley](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Doon_Valley \"Doon Valley\") on one side and the Aglar River valley and the [Himalayan Range](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Himalayan_Range \"Himalayan Range\") to the north. After renovation at a cost of [Rs](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rupee \"Rupee\") 23.71 [crore](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crore \"Crore\"), the house was opened as a museum in December 2021.[\\[33\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-33)\n\n## References\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=George_Everest&action=edit&section=8 \"Edit section: References\")\\]\n\n1. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-1)**\n   Olausson, Lena; Sangster, Catherine M. (2006). *Oxford BBC guide to pronunciation: the essential handbook of the spoken word*. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 124. [ISBN](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISBN_\\(identifier\\) \"ISBN (identifier)\")\n   \n   [978-0-19-280710-6](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:BookSources\/978-0-19-280710-6 \"Special:BookSources\/978-0-19-280710-6\")\n   \n   .\n2. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-2)**\n   Claypole, Jonty (Director); Kunzru, Hari (Presenter) (2003). [*Mapping Everest*](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b0074phg) (TV Documentary). London: BBC Television.\n3. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-:0_3-0)**\n   Dean, Riaz (2019). *Mapping The Great Game: Explorers, Spies & Maps in Nineteenth-century Asia*. Oxford: Casemate (UK). p. 100. [ISBN](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISBN_\\(identifier\\) \"ISBN (identifier)\")\n   \n   [978-1-61200-814-1](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:BookSources\/978-1-61200-814-1 \"Special:BookSources\/978-1-61200-814-1\")\n   \n   .\n4. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-4)**\n   Wallace, Colin. [\"Mount Everest – The British Story\"](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150925110548\/http:\/\/www.everest1953.co.uk\/NamingMountEverest.php). Archived from [the original](http:\/\/www.everest1953.co.uk\/NamingMountEverest.php) on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 2 November 2015.\n5. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-BBC_mwde_5-0)**\n   Biswas, Soutik (20 October 2003). [\"The man who 'discovered' Everest\"](http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/3193576.stm). *BBC News*. Retrieved 9 August 2016.\n6. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-6)** See report in 'The Illustrated London News', 15 August 1857\n7. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-7)**\n   Ram Copal Sanyal, ed. (1894), [*Reminiscences and anecdotes of great men of India: both official and non-official for the last one hundred years*](https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=0BYdAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA25), p. 25\n8. ^ [***a***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-r1_8-0) [***b***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-r1_8-1)\n   \"George Everest was born on 4 July 1790 but the location is open to doubt. This uncertainty as to his birthplace arises because his father William Tristram Everest had an estate near Crickhowell in south [Wales](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wales \"Wales\") and some reference works suggest he was born there. \\[...\\] George's baptismal certificate certainly indicates that he was baptized in Greenwich but although the certificate also bears his date of birth it does not indicate the locality.\"\n   \n   Smith, James R. (2015). \"Sir George Everest\". In Martin, Geoffrey (ed.). [*Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 15*](https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=w3skCwAAQBAJ). Bloomsbury Publishing. [ISBN](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISBN_\\(identifier\\) \"ISBN (identifier)\")\n   \n   [9781474226653](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:BookSources\/9781474226653 \"Special:BookSources\/9781474226653\")\n   \n   .\n9. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-9)**\n   Salkeld, Audrey ([American Alpine Club](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Alpine_Club \"American Alpine Club\")) - [The American alpine journal](https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=OLij19S1ftAC&pg=PA71). 32.1990. p. 71.\n   \n   [ISBN](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISBN_\\(identifier\\) \"ISBN (identifier)\")\n   \n   [1933056371](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:BookSources\/1933056371 \"Special:BookSources\/1933056371\")\n   \n   Retrieved 18 November 2017\n10. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-10)**\n    [\"Gwernvale Manor Hotel\"](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20171201041914\/http:\/\/www.parksandgardens.org\/places-and-people\/site\/8302\/history). *Parks and Gardens UK*. Archived from [the original](http:\/\/www.parksandgardens.org\/places-and-people\/site\/8302\/history) on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 18 November 2017.\n11. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-11)**\n    Ahluwalia, H. P. S. (2001) [The Everest within](https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=lLvPiyCNTnwC&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13). Hemkunt Press. p. 13.\n    \n    [ISBN](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISBN_\\(identifier\\) \"ISBN (identifier)\")\n    \n    [8170103096](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:BookSources\/8170103096 \"Special:BookSources\/8170103096\")\n    \n    Retrieved 18 November 2017\n12. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-12)** [BBC](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BBC \"BBC\") (7 March 2000) [Celebrating Wales on top of the world](http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/wales\/669629.stm).\n13. ^ [***a***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-jrs_13-0) [***b***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-jrs_13-1) [***c***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-jrs_13-2) [***d***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-jrs_13-3)\n    Smith, James R. (1992). [\"Sir George Everest, F.R.S. (1790–1866)\"](https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/531442). *Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London*. **46** (1): 89–102\\. [doi](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Doi_\\(identifier\\) \"Doi (identifier)\"):[10\\.1098\/rsnr.1992.0005](https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1098%2Frsnr.1992.0005). [ISSN](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISSN_\\(identifier\\) \"ISSN (identifier)\") [0035-9149](https:\/\/search.worldcat.org\/issn\/0035-9149). [JSTOR](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/JSTOR_\\(identifier\\) \"JSTOR (identifier)\") [531442](https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/531442).\n14. ^ [***a***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-odnb_14-0) [***b***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-odnb_14-1) [***c***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-odnb_14-2) [***d***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-odnb_14-3) [***e***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-odnb_14-4)\n    Baigent, Elizabeth. \"Everest, Sir George\". *[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dictionary_of_National_Biography#Oxford_Dictionary_of_National_Biography \"Dictionary of National Biography\")* (online ed.). Oxford University Press. [doi](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Doi_\\(identifier\\) \"Doi (identifier)\"):[10\\.1093\/ref:odnb\/9003](https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093%2Fref%3Aodnb%2F9003).\n    \n    (Subscription, [Wikipedia Library](https:\/\/wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org\/partners\/88\/) access or [UK public library membership](https:\/\/www.oxforddnb.com\/help\/subscribe#public) required.)\n15. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-Gila_Valley_15-0)**\n    [\"Freemasons and the Royal Society\"](http:\/\/gilavalleylodge9.wordpress.com\/2010\/06\/27\/freemasons-and-the-royal-society\/). Gila Valley Lodge No 9. 28 June 2010. Retrieved 25 February 2018.\n16. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-16)**\n    Mary Everest Boole (1901). [*Indian Thought and Western Science in the Nineteenth Century*](http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/indianthoughtwes00bool). Library Genesis. The Ceylon National Review.\n17. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-17)**\n    [\"St George, Hanover Square 1846–1847\"](https:\/\/www.ancestryinstitution.com\/search\/collections\/61867\/records\/90884013). Ancestry.com.\n18. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-18)**\n    [\"No. 7097\"](https:\/\/www.thegazette.co.uk\/Edinburgh\/issue\/7097\/page\/289). *[The Edinburgh Gazette](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Edinburgh_Gazette \"The Edinburgh Gazette\")*. 1 March 1861. p. 289.\n19. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-19)**\n    [\"No. 22493\"](https:\/\/www.thegazette.co.uk\/London\/issue\/22493\/page\/1241). *[The London Gazette](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_London_Gazette \"The London Gazette\")*. 19 March 1861. p. 1241.\n20. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-20)** [The Naming of Mount Everest](https:\/\/www.montana.edu\/everest\/facts\/naming.html). Montana State University website. Accessed 11 January 2023.\n21. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-21)**\n    Everest, Robert. *A Journey Through the United States and Part of Canada*. John Chapman: King William Street, Strand, London, 1855.\n22. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-22)**\n    Schafer, Elizabeth (2006) [*Lilian Baylis: A Biography*](https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=U4Y6Jyc0vSAC&pg=PA76). Univ of Hertfordshire Press. p. 76.\n    \n    [ISBN](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISBN_\\(identifier\\) \"ISBN (identifier)\")\n    \n    [9781902806648](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:BookSources\/9781902806648 \"Special:BookSources\/9781902806648\")\n23. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-23)**\n    Richards, Denis (2013) [*Offspring of the Vic: A History of Morley College*](https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=d6X0JhHB8-8C&pg=PT60). Routledge. p. 60.\n    \n    [ISBN](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISBN_\\(identifier\\) \"ISBN (identifier)\")\n    \n    [9781135030858](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:BookSources\/9781135030858 \"Special:BookSources\/9781135030858\")\n24. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-24)**\n    Everest, Lancelot Feilding. *The Law of Estoppel*. Stevens and Sons: 119, Chancery Lane, London, 1881.\n25. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-25)**\n    [\"Canadian Great War Project\"](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20201127045004\/http:\/\/canadiangreatwarproject.com\/searches\/soldierDetailPrint.asp?ID=60846). Archived from [the original](http:\/\/canadiangreatwarproject.com\/searches\/soldierDetailPrint.asp?ID=60846) on 27 November 2020. Retrieved 1 July 2016.\n26. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-26)**\n    [\"Every Man Remembered – Soldier Profile Private Cyril Fielding Everest\"](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20140730101710\/http:\/\/www.everymanremembered.org\/profiles\/soldier\/1567689\/). Archived from [the original](http:\/\/www.everymanremembered.org\/profiles\/soldier\/1567689) on 30 July 2014.\n27. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-27)**\n    Creese, Mary (2004). \"Boole, Mary\". *[ODNB](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ODNB \"ODNB\")*. *[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dictionary_of_National_Biography#Oxford_Dictionary_of_National_Biography \"Dictionary of National Biography\")* (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 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[ISBN](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISBN_\\(identifier\\) \"ISBN (identifier)\")\n    \n    [9780810832879](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:BookSources\/9780810832879 \"Special:BookSources\/9780810832879\")\n    \n    .\n30. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-30)**\n    Batchelor, George (1994). *The Life and Legacy of G.I. Taylor*. Cambridge University Press. p. 25. [ISBN](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISBN_\\(identifier\\) \"ISBN (identifier)\")\n    \n    [0521461219](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:BookSources\/0521461219 \"Special:BookSources\/0521461219\")\n    \n    .\n31. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-31)**\n    Nigam, Devesh (2002). *Tourism, environment, and development of Garhwal Himalaya* (1. ed.). New Delhi, India: Mittal Publications. p. 54. 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[\"Renovated Sir George Everest House in Mussoorie opens to public\"](https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/dehradun\/renovated-sir-george-everest-house-in-mussoorie-opens-to-public\/articleshow\/88151580.cms). *[The Times of India](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Times_of_India \"The Times of India\")*.\n\n## Further reading\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=George_Everest&action=edit&section=9 \"Edit section: Further reading\")\\]\n\n- John Keay. 2000. *The Great Arc*. London: HarperCollins.\n  [ISBN](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISBN_\\(identifier\\) \"ISBN (identifier)\")\n  [0-00-257062-9](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:BookSources\/0-00-257062-9 \"Special:BookSources\/0-00-257062-9\")\n  .\n- J. R. Smith. 1999. *Everest: The Man and the Mountain*. 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He was eventually made an assistant to [William Lambton](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Lambton \"William Lambton\") on the [Great Trigonometric Survey](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_Trigonometric_Survey \"Great Trigonometric Survey\"), and replaced Lambton as superintendent of the survey in 1823. Everest was largely responsible for surveying the [meridian arc](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meridian_arc \"Meridian arc\") from the southernmost point of [India](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/India \"India\") north to [Nepal](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nepal \"Nepal\"), a distance of about 2,400 kilometres (1,500 mi), a task that took from 1806 to 1841 to complete. He was made Surveyor General of India in 1830, retiring in 1843 and returning to England.\n\nIn 1865, the [Royal Geographical Society](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Royal_Geographical_Society \"Royal Geographical Society\") renamed Peak XV—at the time only recently identified as the world's highest peak—to [Mount Everest](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mount_Everest \"Mount Everest\") in his honour.[\\[4\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-4) [Andrew Scott Waugh](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andrew_Scott_Waugh \"Andrew Scott Waugh\"), his protégé and successor as surveyor general, had been responsible for putting his name forward in 1856. Everest's name was used as a compromise due to the difficulty of choosing between multiple local names for the mountain. He initially objected to the honour, as he had had nothing to do with its discovery and believed his name was not easily written or pronounced in [Hindi](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hindi \"Hindi\").[\\[5\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-BBC_mwde-5)[\\[6\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-6)[\\[7\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-7)\n\nEverest was born on 4 July 1790, but his birthplace is uncertain.[\\[8\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-r1-8)[\\[9\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-9) He was baptised at [St Alfege Church](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/St_Alfege_Church,_Greenwich \"St Alfege Church, Greenwich\") in [Greenwich, London](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Greenwich \"Greenwich\"), on 27 January 1791.[\\[10\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-10) He was born either at Greenwich or at Gwernvale Manor, his family's estate near [Crickhowell](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crickhowell \"Crickhowell\"), [Brecknockshire](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brecknockshire \"Brecknockshire\") (now part of [Powys](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Powys \"Powys\")) in [Wales](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wales \"Wales\").[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-11)[\\[12\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-12) Everest was the eldest son and third of six children born to Lucetta Mary (née Smith) and William Tristram Everest. His father was a solicitor and [justice of the peace](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Justice_of_the_peace \"Justice of the peace\"), part of a \"Greenwich family of long standing\", and was successful enough to acquire a large estate in [south Wales](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Wales \"South Wales\"). His grandfather John Everest, the son of a butcher, was the first in the family to enter the legal profession. The Everest family in Greenwich can be traced at least as far back as the late 1600s, when Tristram Everest–John's great-grandfather–was a butcher in Church Street.[\\[8\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-r1-8)\n\nEverest was educated at the [Royal Military College](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Royal_Military_College,_Sandhurst \"Royal Military College, Sandhurst\") in [Marlow, Buckinghamshire](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marlow,_Buckinghamshire \"Marlow, Buckinghamshire\"), followed by a year at the [Royal Military Academy, Woolwich](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Royal_Military_Academy,_Woolwich \"Royal Military Academy, Woolwich\"), the military engineers' and artillery training college. He joined the [East India Company](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/East_India_Company \"East India Company\") as a cadet in 1806 (before he had reached the required age of 16[\\[13\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-jrs-13)). He was commissioned as a [second lieutenant](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Second_lieutenant \"Second lieutenant\") in the [Bengal Artillery](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bengal_Artillery \"Bengal Artillery\"), and sailed for [India](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/India \"India\") in the same year.[\\[14\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-odnb-14)\n\nEverest was a [Freemason](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Freemason \"Freemason\")[\\[13\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-jrs-13) and initiated on an unknown date in Neptune Lodge, [Penang](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Penang \"Penang\"), under the authority of the [United Grand Lodge of England](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Grand_Lodge_of_England \"United Grand Lodge of England\"). After returning to England, he joined Prince of Wales' Lodge, London, on 20 February 1829.[\\[15\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-Gila_Valley-15)\n\n### Early career in India\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=George_Everest&action=edit&section=2 \"Edit section: Early career in India\")\\]\n\nLittle is known about Everest's earliest years in India, but when he first arrived in the country at 16 years old he showed a talent for mathematics and astronomy. He was seconded to [Java](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/British_Java \"British Java\") in 1814, where Lieutenant-Governor [Stamford Raffles](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stamford_Raffles \"Stamford Raffles\") appointed him to survey the island.[\\[13\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-jrs-13) Everest returned to Bengal in 1816, where he improved British knowledge of the [Ganges](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ganges \"Ganges\") and the [Hooghly River](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hooghly_River \"Hooghly River\"). He later surveyed a [semaphore](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Semaphore \"Semaphore\") line from [Calcutta](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Calcutta \"Calcutta\") to [Benares](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benares \"Benares\"), covering approximately 400 miles (640 km). Everest's work came to the attention of Colonel [William Lambton](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Lambton \"William Lambton\"), the leader of the [Great Trigonometrical Survey](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_Trigonometrical_Survey \"Great Trigonometrical Survey\") (GTS), who appointed him as his chief assistant. He joined Lambton at [Hyderabad, India](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hyderabad \"Hyderabad\") in 1818, where he was in the process of surveying a [meridian arc](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meridian_arc \"Meridian arc\") northward from [Cape Commorin](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cape_Commorin \"Cape Commorin\"). He was responsible for much of the fieldwork, but then in 1820 contracted [malaria](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Malaria \"Malaria\"), necessitating a period of recovery spent at the [Cape of Good Hope](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cape_of_Good_Hope \"Cape of Good Hope\") in [South Africa](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Africa \"South Africa\").[\\[14\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-odnb-14)\n\nRecovering from malaria, Everest returned to India in 1821. He succeeded Lambton as superintendent of the GTS upon Lambton's death in 1823, and during the following years extended his predecessor's efforts on the arc up to [Sironj](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sironj \"Sironj\"), in present-day [Madhya Pradesh](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Madhya_Pradesh \"Madhya Pradesh\"). Everest was prone to suffer from poor health, however, and the effects of a bout of fever and rheumatism left him half paralysed. He returned to England in 1825, where he spent the following five years recuperating. During that time, Everest was elected as a [Fellow of the Royal Society](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society \"Fellow of the Royal Society\") in March 1827. Most of his free time was spent lobbying the East India Company for better equipment and studying the methods used by the [Ordnance Survey](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ordnance_Survey \"Ordnance Survey\"); he frequently corresponded with [Thomas Frederick Colby](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Frederick_Colby \"Thomas Frederick Colby\").[\\[14\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-odnb-14)\n\nHe became acquainted with Indian thought, according to his niece Mary Boole:[\\[16\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-16)\n\n> My uncle, George Everest, was sent to India in 1806 at the age of sixteen. \\[...\\] the boy went out ignorant, un-spoiled and fresh. He made the acquaintance of a learned Brahman who taught him—not the details of his own ritual, as European missionaries do, but—the essential factor in all true religion, the secret of how man may hold communion with the Infinite Unknown.\n\nIt is very likely he introduced Indian thought to others as well:\n\n> Some time about 1825, he came to England for two or three years, and made a fast and lifelong friendship with [Herschel](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Herschel \"John Herschel\") and with [Babbage](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Babbage \"Charles Babbage\"), who was then quite young.(.) My uncle returned from India. He never interfered with anyone's religious beliefs or customs. But no one under his influence could continue to believe in anything in the Bible being specially sacred, except the two elements which it has in common with other sacred books: the knowledge of our relation to others and of man's power to hold direct converse with the unseen truth.\n\n### Surveyor General of India\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=George_Everest&action=edit&section=3 \"Edit section: Surveyor General of India\")\\]\n\nIn June 1830, Everest returned to India to continue his work on the GTS, and was simultaneously appointed [Surveyor General of India](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Surveyor_General_of_India \"Surveyor General of India\"). The arc from Cape Commorin to the northern border of British India was finally completed in 1841, under the supervision of [Andrew Scott Waugh](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andrew_Scott_Waugh \"Andrew Scott Waugh\"). To his dismay, much of his time was spent on administrative concerns, as well as combating criticism from home. The East India Company had provisionally appointed Thomas Jervis as Everest's successor, and Jervis subsequently delivered a series of lectures to the Royal Society on the perceived deficiencies of Everest's methods.\n\nIn response, Everest penned a series of open letters to [Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prince_Augustus_Frederick,_Duke_of_Sussex \"Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex\"), the society's president, in which he lambasted the society \"for meddling in matters of which they know little\". Jervis withdrew from consideration, and Everest successfully secured the appointment of his protégé Waugh as his successor. He resigned in November 1842 and his commission was formally revoked in December 1843, at which point he returned to England.[\\[14\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-odnb-14)\n\nIn London on 11 November 1846 Everest married Emma Wing, aged 23, of [Hampstead, London](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hampstead \"Hampstead\").[\\[17\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-17) They had six children.[\\[13\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-jrs-13)\n\n[![](https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/6\/67\/G_Everest_grave_Hove.jpg\/250px-G_Everest_grave_Hove.jpg)](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:G_Everest_grave_Hove.jpg)\n\nEverest's grave, [St Andrew's Church, Hove](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/St_Andrew%27s_Church,_Church_Road,_Hove \"St Andrew's Church, Church Road, Hove\"), [East Sussex](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/East_Sussex \"East Sussex\").\n\nIn 1847, Everest published *An Account of the Measurement of Two Sections of the Meridional Arc of India*, for which he was awarded a medal by the [Royal Astronomical Society](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Royal_Astronomical_Society \"Royal Astronomical Society\"). He was later elected to fellowship of the [Royal Asiatic Society](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Royal_Asiatic_Society_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland \"Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland\") and the [Royal Geographical Society](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Royal_Geographical_Society \"Royal Geographical Society\"). Everest was promoted to [colonel](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colonel \"Colonel\") in 1854, made a [Commander of the Order of the Bath](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_Bath \"Commander of the Order of the Bath\") in February 1861,[\\[18\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-18) and created a [Knight Bachelor](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Knight_Bachelor \"Knight Bachelor\") in March 1861.[\\[19\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-19)\n\nHe died at his home in [Hyde Park Gardens](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hyde_Park_Gardens \"Hyde Park Gardens\") on 1 December 1866, and was buried in [St Andrew's Church, Hove](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/St_Andrew%27s_Church,_Church_Road,_Hove \"St Andrew's Church, Church Road, Hove\") near [Brighton](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brighton \"Brighton\").[\\[14\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-odnb-14)\n\n## Naming of Mount Everest\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=George_Everest&action=edit&section=5 \"Edit section: Naming of Mount Everest\")\\]\n\nGeorge Everest had no direct connection with the [mountain which bears his name](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mount_Everest \"Mount Everest\"), which he never saw. He was, however, responsible for hiring [Andrew Scott Waugh](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andrew_Scott_Waugh \"Andrew Scott Waugh\"), who made the first formal observations of the mountain, and [Radhanath Sikdar](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Radhanath_Sikdar \"Radhanath Sikdar\"), who calculated its height. Before its significance was realised, Mount Everest was originally known as Peak \"B\" and later as Peak XV. In March 1856, Waugh wrote to the [Royal Geographical Society](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Royal_Geographical_Society \"Royal Geographical Society\") to announce that the mountain was believed to be the highest in the world, and proposed that it be named \"after my illustrious predecessor\", as it was \"without any local name that we can discover\" – the \"native appellation, if it has any, will not very likely be ascertained before we are allowed to penetrate into Nepal\". There were in fact several native names among the [Nepalese](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nepal \"Nepal\") and [Tibetans](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tibet \"Tibet\"), but those areas were closed off to the British at the time and people living further to the south of the Himalayas did not have a specific name for the peak. In the decade after 1856, Waugh's proposal was widely debated by the Royal Geographical Society and similar bodies. Other scholars of India put forward native names that they believed to be correct, such as [Brian Houghton Hodgson](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brian_Houghton_Hodgson \"Brian Houghton Hodgson\")'s \"Deva-dhunga\" and [Hermann Schlagintweit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hermann_Schlagintweit \"Hermann Schlagintweit\")'s \"Gaurisankar\". Everest himself objected to his name being used, as \"the native of India\" could not pronounce it and it could not be easily written in [Hindi](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hindi \"Hindi\"). Nonetheless, in 1865 the society officially settled on \"Mount Everest\" as the name.[\\[20\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-20)\n\nEverest had several siblings, including two younger brothers. George's first younger brother was Robert Everest, chaplain to the East India Company and author of *A Journey Through the United States and Part of Canada*.[\\[21\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-21) His second (his youngest brother) was the Thomas Roupell Everest, the father of Mary Everest and a lay [homoeopath](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Homeopathy \"Homeopathy\"). George Everest's third child, Ethel Everest, was an associate of [Emma Cons](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emma_Cons \"Emma Cons\") and friend of [Lilian Baylis](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lilian_Baylis \"Lilian Baylis\").[\\[22\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-22) She provided financial support for the founding of [Morley College](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Morley_College \"Morley College\") in south London.[\\[23\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-23)\n\nOne of Everest's sons, Lancelot Feilding Everest, was educated at [Harrow School](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harrow_School \"Harrow School\") and [Trinity College, Cambridge](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trinity_College,_Cambridge \"Trinity College, Cambridge\"), and was called to [the Bar](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bar_\\(law\\) \"Bar (law)\") by [Lincoln's Inn](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lincoln%27s_Inn \"Lincoln's Inn\"). He practised as a barrister in chambers in London and was also the principal author of *The Law of Estoppel*.[\\[24\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-24) Lancelot's eldest son, Cyril Feilding Everest, enlisted in the Canadian Infantry on 17 November 1914 and was killed in action on 9 October 1916 at the [Battle of the Somme](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_the_Somme \"Battle of the Somme\").[\\[25\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-25)[\\[26\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-26)\n\nEverest's niece, [Mary Everest](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mary_Everest_Boole \"Mary Everest Boole\"), married mathematician [George Boole](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Boole \"George Boole\") in Gloucestershire on 11 September 1855.[\\[27\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-27)[\\[28\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-28) In spite of the absence of formal training, Mary was a fine mathematician in her own right, as was one of her daughters, [Alicia Boole Stott](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alicia_Boole_Stott \"Alicia Boole Stott\"). Alicia's son, Leonard Boole Stott, studied medicine and became a pioneer in the treatment and control of [tuberculosis](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tuberculosis \"Tuberculosis\"), work for which he was later appointed an [OBE](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Order_of_the_British_Empire \"Order of the British Empire\")[\\[29\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-29) Mary Boole's daughter Margaret was the mother of Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor [OM](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Order_of_Merit \"Order of Merit\"), a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, a renowned mathematician and physicist, and a major figure in fluid dynamics and wave theory.[\\[30\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-30)\n\n## Sir George Everest house in Mussoorie, India\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=George_Everest&action=edit&section=7 \"Edit section: Sir George Everest house in Mussoorie, India\")\\]\n\n[![](https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/1\/1f\/George_everest_house.jpg\/250px-George_everest_house.jpg)](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:George_everest_house.jpg)\n\nPark House from above\n\n[![](https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/a\/af\/Park_House_17b.jpg\/250px-Park_House_17b.jpg)](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Park_House_17b.jpg)\n\nSir George Everest's House and Laboratory, also known as Park House\n\nEverest owned a house in [Mussoorie, India](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mussoorie \"Mussoorie\") for about 11 years.[\\[31\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-31) He purchased it, sight unseen, from General William Sampson Whish (1787–1853).[\\[32\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-32) Built in 1832, the house is known today as Sir George Everest's House and Laboratory, or Park House. The house is in Park Estate about 6 kilometres (4 mi) west of Gandhi Chowk \/ Library Bazaar (the west end of Mall Road in Mussoorie). The location has panoramic views of the [Doon Valley](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Doon_Valley \"Doon Valley\") on one side and the Aglar River valley and the [Himalayan Range](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Himalayan_Range \"Himalayan Range\") to the north. After renovation at a cost of [Rs](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rupee \"Rupee\") 23.71 [crore](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crore \"Crore\"), the house was opened as a museum in December 2021.[\\[33\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_note-33)\n\n1. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-1)**\n   Olausson, Lena; Sangster, Catherine M. (2006). *Oxford BBC guide to pronunciation: the essential handbook of the spoken word*. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 124. [ISBN](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISBN_\\(identifier\\) \"ISBN (identifier)\")\n   \n   [978-0-19-280710-6](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:BookSources\/978-0-19-280710-6 \"Special:BookSources\/978-0-19-280710-6\")\n   \n   .\n2. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-2)**\n   Claypole, Jonty (Director); Kunzru, Hari (Presenter) (2003). [*Mapping Everest*](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b0074phg) (TV Documentary). London: BBC Television.\n3. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-:0_3-0)**\n   Dean, Riaz (2019). *Mapping The Great Game: Explorers, Spies & Maps in Nineteenth-century Asia*. Oxford: Casemate (UK). p. 100. [ISBN](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISBN_\\(identifier\\) \"ISBN (identifier)\")\n   \n   [978-1-61200-814-1](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:BookSources\/978-1-61200-814-1 \"Special:BookSources\/978-1-61200-814-1\")\n   \n   .\n4. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-4)**\n   Wallace, Colin. [\"Mount Everest – The British Story\"](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150925110548\/http:\/\/www.everest1953.co.uk\/NamingMountEverest.php). Archived from [the original](http:\/\/www.everest1953.co.uk\/NamingMountEverest.php) on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 2 November 2015.\n5. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-BBC_mwde_5-0)**\n   Biswas, Soutik (20 October 2003). [\"The man who 'discovered' Everest\"](http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/3193576.stm). *BBC News*. Retrieved 9 August 2016.\n6. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-6)** See report in 'The Illustrated London News', 15 August 1857\n7. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-7)**\n   Ram Copal Sanyal, ed. (1894), [*Reminiscences and anecdotes of great men of India: both official and non-official for the last one hundred years*](https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=0BYdAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA25), p. 25\n8. ^ [***a***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-r1_8-0) [***b***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-r1_8-1)\n   \"George Everest was born on 4 July 1790 but the location is open to doubt. This uncertainty as to his birthplace arises because his father William Tristram Everest had an estate near Crickhowell in south [Wales](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wales \"Wales\") and some reference works suggest he was born there. \\[...\\] George's baptismal certificate certainly indicates that he was baptized in Greenwich but although the certificate also bears his date of birth it does not indicate the locality.\"\n   \n   Smith, James R. (2015). \"Sir George Everest\". In Martin, Geoffrey (ed.). [*Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 15*](https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=w3skCwAAQBAJ). Bloomsbury Publishing. [ISBN](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISBN_\\(identifier\\) \"ISBN (identifier)\")\n   \n   [9781474226653](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:BookSources\/9781474226653 \"Special:BookSources\/9781474226653\")\n   \n   .\n9. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-9)**\n   Salkeld, Audrey ([American Alpine Club](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Alpine_Club \"American Alpine Club\")) - [The American alpine journal](https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=OLij19S1ftAC&pg=PA71). 32.1990. p. 71. [ISBN](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISBN_\\(identifier\\) \"ISBN (identifier)\")\n   \n   [1933056371](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:BookSources\/1933056371 \"Special:BookSources\/1933056371\")\n   \n   Retrieved 18 November 2017\n10. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-10)**\n    [\"Gwernvale Manor Hotel\"](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20171201041914\/http:\/\/www.parksandgardens.org\/places-and-people\/site\/8302\/history). *Parks and Gardens UK*. Archived from [the original](http:\/\/www.parksandgardens.org\/places-and-people\/site\/8302\/history) on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 18 November 2017.\n11. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-11)**\n    Ahluwalia, H. P. S. (2001) [The Everest within](https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=lLvPiyCNTnwC&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13). Hemkunt Press. p. 13. [ISBN](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISBN_\\(identifier\\) \"ISBN (identifier)\")\n    \n    [8170103096](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:BookSources\/8170103096 \"Special:BookSources\/8170103096\")\n    \n    Retrieved 18 November 2017\n12. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-12)** [BBC](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BBC \"BBC\") (7 March 2000) [Celebrating Wales on top of the world](http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/wales\/669629.stm).\n13. ^ [***a***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-jrs_13-0) [***b***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-jrs_13-1) [***c***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-jrs_13-2) [***d***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-jrs_13-3)\n    Smith, James R. (1992). [\"Sir George Everest, F.R.S. (1790–1866)\"](https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/531442). *Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London*. **46** (1): 89–102\\. [doi](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Doi_\\(identifier\\) \"Doi (identifier)\"):[10\\.1098\/rsnr.1992.0005](https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1098%2Frsnr.1992.0005). [ISSN](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISSN_\\(identifier\\) \"ISSN (identifier)\") [0035-9149](https:\/\/search.worldcat.org\/issn\/0035-9149). [JSTOR](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/JSTOR_\\(identifier\\) \"JSTOR (identifier)\") [531442](https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/531442).\n14. ^ [***a***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-odnb_14-0) [***b***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-odnb_14-1) [***c***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-odnb_14-2) [***d***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-odnb_14-3) [***e***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-odnb_14-4)\n    Baigent, Elizabeth. \"Everest, Sir George\". *[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dictionary_of_National_Biography#Oxford_Dictionary_of_National_Biography \"Dictionary of National Biography\")* (online ed.). Oxford University Press. [doi](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Doi_\\(identifier\\) \"Doi (identifier)\"):[10\\.1093\/ref:odnb\/9003](https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093%2Fref%3Aodnb%2F9003).\n    \n    (Subscription, [Wikipedia Library](https:\/\/wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org\/partners\/88\/) access or [UK public library membership](https:\/\/www.oxforddnb.com\/help\/subscribe#public) required.)\n15. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-Gila_Valley_15-0)**\n    [\"Freemasons and the Royal Society\"](http:\/\/gilavalleylodge9.wordpress.com\/2010\/06\/27\/freemasons-and-the-royal-society\/). Gila Valley Lodge No 9. 28 June 2010. Retrieved 25 February 2018.\n16. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-16)**\n    Mary Everest Boole (1901). [*Indian Thought and Western Science in the Nineteenth Century*](http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/indianthoughtwes00bool). Library Genesis. The Ceylon National Review.\n17. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-17)**\n    [\"St George, Hanover Square 1846–1847\"](https:\/\/www.ancestryinstitution.com\/search\/collections\/61867\/records\/90884013). Ancestry.com.\n18. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-18)**\n    [\"No. 7097\"](https:\/\/www.thegazette.co.uk\/Edinburgh\/issue\/7097\/page\/289). *[The Edinburgh Gazette](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Edinburgh_Gazette \"The Edinburgh Gazette\")*. 1 March 1861. p. 289.\n19. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-19)**\n    [\"No. 22493\"](https:\/\/www.thegazette.co.uk\/London\/issue\/22493\/page\/1241). *[The London Gazette](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_London_Gazette \"The London Gazette\")*. 19 March 1861. p. 1241.\n20. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-20)** [The Naming of Mount Everest](https:\/\/www.montana.edu\/everest\/facts\/naming.html). Montana State University website. Accessed 11 January 2023.\n21. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-21)**\n    Everest, Robert. *A Journey Through the United States and Part of Canada*. John Chapman: King William Street, Strand, London, 1855.\n22. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-22)**\n    Schafer, Elizabeth (2006) [*Lilian Baylis: A Biography*](https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=U4Y6Jyc0vSAC&pg=PA76). Univ of Hertfordshire Press. p. 76. [ISBN](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISBN_\\(identifier\\) \"ISBN (identifier)\")\n    \n    [9781902806648](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:BookSources\/9781902806648 \"Special:BookSources\/9781902806648\")\n23. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-23)**\n    Richards, Denis (2013) [*Offspring of the Vic: A History of Morley College*](https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=d6X0JhHB8-8C&pg=PT60). Routledge. p. 60. [ISBN](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISBN_\\(identifier\\) \"ISBN (identifier)\")\n    \n    [9781135030858](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:BookSources\/9781135030858 \"Special:BookSources\/9781135030858\")\n24. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-24)**\n    Everest, Lancelot Feilding. *The Law of Estoppel*. Stevens and Sons: 119, Chancery Lane, London, 1881.\n25. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-25)**\n    [\"Canadian Great War Project\"](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20201127045004\/http:\/\/canadiangreatwarproject.com\/searches\/soldierDetailPrint.asp?ID=60846). Archived from [the original](http:\/\/canadiangreatwarproject.com\/searches\/soldierDetailPrint.asp?ID=60846) on 27 November 2020. Retrieved 1 July 2016.\n26. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-26)**\n    [\"Every Man Remembered – Soldier Profile Private Cyril Fielding Everest\"](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20140730101710\/http:\/\/www.everymanremembered.org\/profiles\/soldier\/1567689\/). Archived from [the original](http:\/\/www.everymanremembered.org\/profiles\/soldier\/1567689) on 30 July 2014.\n27. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-27)**\n    Creese, Mary (2004). \"Boole, Mary\". *[ODNB](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ODNB \"ODNB\")*. *[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dictionary_of_National_Biography#Oxford_Dictionary_of_National_Biography \"Dictionary of National Biography\")* (online ed.). Oxford University Press. [doi](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Doi_\\(identifier\\) \"Doi (identifier)\"):[10\\.1093\/ref:odnb\/38817](https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093%2Fref%3Aodnb%2F38817).\n    \n    (Subscription, [Wikipedia Library](https:\/\/wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org\/partners\/88\/) access or [UK public library membership](https:\/\/www.oxforddnb.com\/help\/subscribe#public) required.)\n28. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-28)**\n    [\"Gloucestershire, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1938\"](https:\/\/search.ancestry.co.uk\/search\/db.aspx?dbid=5156). *search.ancestry.co.uk*. Retrieved 28 January 2016.\n29. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-29)**\n    Creese, Mary R. S. (1998). *Ladies in the Laboratory? American and British Women in Science, 1800–1900: A Survey of their Contributions to Research*. The Scarecrow Press, Inc. p. 199. [ISBN](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISBN_\\(identifier\\) \"ISBN (identifier)\")\n    \n    [9780810832879](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:BookSources\/9780810832879 \"Special:BookSources\/9780810832879\")\n    \n    .\n30. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-30)**\n    Batchelor, George (1994). *The Life and Legacy of G.I. Taylor*. Cambridge University Press. p. 25. [ISBN](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISBN_\\(identifier\\) \"ISBN (identifier)\")\n    \n    [0521461219](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:BookSources\/0521461219 \"Special:BookSources\/0521461219\")\n    \n    .\n31. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-31)**\n    Nigam, Devesh (2002). *Tourism, environment, and development of Garhwal Himalaya* (1. ed.). New Delhi, India: Mittal Publications. p. 54. [ISBN](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISBN_\\(identifier\\) \"ISBN (identifier)\")\n    \n    [81-7099-870-0](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:BookSources\/81-7099-870-0 \"Special:BookSources\/81-7099-870-0\")\n    \n    .\n32. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-32)**\n    Phillimore, Reginald (July 1955). \"Stokes' School, Mussoorie\". *The Indian Archives*. **IX** (2). New Delhi: [National Archives of India](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Archives_of_India \"National Archives of India\") (published December 1955): 101.\n33. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Everest#cite_ref-33)**\n    Jain, Anmol (8 December 2021). [\"Renovated Sir George Everest House in Mussoorie opens to public\"](https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/dehradun\/renovated-sir-george-everest-house-in-mussoorie-opens-to-public\/articleshow\/88151580.cms). *[The Times of India](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Times_of_India \"The Times of India\")*.\n\n- John Keay. 2000. *The Great Arc*. London: HarperCollins. [ISBN](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISBN_\\(identifier\\) \"ISBN (identifier)\")\n  [0-00-257062-9](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:BookSources\/0-00-257062-9 \"Special:BookSources\/0-00-257062-9\")\n  .\n- J. R. Smith. 1999. *Everest: The Man and the Mountain*. Caithness: Whittles Publishing. [ISBN](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISBN_\\(identifier\\) \"ISBN (identifier)\")\n  [1-870325-72-9](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:BookSources\/1-870325-72-9 \"Special:BookSources\/1-870325-72-9\")\n  .\n- Dean, Riaz (2019). *Mapping the Great Game: Explorers, Spies and Maps in 19th-Century Asia*. Oxford, UK: Casemate. [ISBN](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISBN_\\(identifier\\) \"ISBN (identifier)\")\n  \n  [978-1-61200-815-8](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:BookSources\/978-1-61200-815-8 \"Special:BookSources\/978-1-61200-815-8\")\n  \n  . [OCLC](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/OCLC_\\(identifier\\) \"OCLC (identifier)\") [1127908291](https:\/\/search.worldcat.org\/oclc\/1127908291).\n\n- [Chisholm, Hugh](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hugh_Chisholm \"Hugh Chisholm\"), ed. (1911). 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Boilerpipe Text	From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sir George Everest KCB FRS FRAS FRGS Born 4 July 1790 Crickhowell, Wales , or Greenwich, England Died 1 December 1866 (aged 76) London, England Known for Great Trigonometric Survey of India; Being the eponym of Mount Everest Awards Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1847) Scientific career Fields Geography Sir George Everest , CB , FRS , FRAS , FRGS ( , EEV -rist ; [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] 4 July 1790 – 1 December 1866) was a British surveyor and geographer who served as Surveyor General of India from 1830 to 1843. After a military education, Everest joined the East India Company and arrived in India at the age of 16. He was eventually made an assistant to William Lambton on the Great Trigonometric Survey , and replaced Lambton as superintendent of the survey in 1823. Everest was largely responsible for surveying the meridian arc from the southernmost point of India north to Nepal , a distance of about 2,400 kilometres (1,500 mi), a task that took from 1806 to 1841 to complete. He was made Surveyor General of India in 1830, retiring in 1843 and returning to England. In 1865, the Royal Geographical Society renamed Peak XV—at the time only recently identified as the world's highest peak—to Mount Everest in his honour. [ 4 ] Andrew Scott Waugh , his protégé and successor as surveyor general, had been responsible for putting his name forward in 1856. Everest's name was used as a compromise due to the difficulty of choosing between multiple local names for the mountain. He initially objected to the honour, as he had had nothing to do with its discovery and believed his name was not easily written or pronounced in Hindi . [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Everest was born on 4 July 1790, but his birthplace is uncertain. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] He was baptised at St Alfege Church in Greenwich, London , on 27 January 1791. [ 10 ] He was born either at Greenwich or at Gwernvale Manor, his family's estate near Crickhowell , Brecknockshire (now part of Powys ) in Wales . [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Everest was the eldest son and third of six children born to Lucetta Mary (née Smith) and William Tristram Everest. His father was a solicitor and justice of the peace , part of a "Greenwich family of long standing", and was successful enough to acquire a large estate in south Wales . His grandfather John Everest, the son of a butcher, was the first in the family to enter the legal profession. The Everest family in Greenwich can be traced at least as far back as the late 1600s, when Tristram Everest–John's great-grandfather–was a butcher in Church Street. [ 8 ] Everest was educated at the Royal Military College in Marlow, Buckinghamshire , followed by a year at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich , the military engineers' and artillery training college. He joined the East India Company as a cadet in 1806 (before he had reached the required age of 16 [ 13 ] ). He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Bengal Artillery , and sailed for India in the same year. [ 14 ] Everest was a Freemason [ 13 ] and initiated on an unknown date in Neptune Lodge, Penang , under the authority of the United Grand Lodge of England . After returning to England, he joined Prince of Wales' Lodge, London, on 20 February 1829. [ 15 ] Early career in India [ edit ] Little is known about Everest's earliest years in India, but when he first arrived in the country at 16 years old he showed a talent for mathematics and astronomy. He was seconded to Java in 1814, where Lieutenant-Governor Stamford Raffles appointed him to survey the island. [ 13 ] Everest returned to Bengal in 1816, where he improved British knowledge of the Ganges and the Hooghly River . He later surveyed a semaphore line from Calcutta to Benares , covering approximately 400 miles (640 km). Everest's work came to the attention of Colonel William Lambton , the leader of the Great Trigonometrical Survey (GTS), who appointed him as his chief assistant. He joined Lambton at Hyderabad, India in 1818, where he was in the process of surveying a meridian arc northward from Cape Commorin . He was responsible for much of the fieldwork, but then in 1820 contracted malaria , necessitating a period of recovery spent at the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa . [ 14 ] Recovering from malaria, Everest returned to India in 1821. He succeeded Lambton as superintendent of the GTS upon Lambton's death in 1823, and during the following years extended his predecessor's efforts on the arc up to Sironj , in present-day Madhya Pradesh . Everest was prone to suffer from poor health, however, and the effects of a bout of fever and rheumatism left him half paralysed. He returned to England in 1825, where he spent the following five years recuperating. During that time, Everest was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in March 1827. Most of his free time was spent lobbying the East India Company for better equipment and studying the methods used by the Ordnance Survey ; he frequently corresponded with Thomas Frederick Colby . [ 14 ] He became acquainted with Indian thought, according to his niece Mary Boole: [ 16 ] My uncle, George Everest, was sent to India in 1806 at the age of sixteen. [...] the boy went out ignorant, un-spoiled and fresh. He made the acquaintance of a learned Brahman who taught him—not the details of his own ritual, as European missionaries do, but—the essential factor in all true religion, the secret of how man may hold communion with the Infinite Unknown. It is very likely he introduced Indian thought to others as well: Some time about 1825, he came to England for two or three years, and made a fast and lifelong friendship with Herschel and with Babbage , who was then quite young.(.) My uncle returned from India. He never interfered with anyone's religious beliefs or customs. But no one under his influence could continue to believe in anything in the Bible being specially sacred, except the two elements which it has in common with other sacred books: the knowledge of our relation to others and of man's power to hold direct converse with the unseen truth. Surveyor General of India [ edit ] In June 1830, Everest returned to India to continue his work on the GTS, and was simultaneously appointed Surveyor General of India . The arc from Cape Commorin to the northern border of British India was finally completed in 1841, under the supervision of Andrew Scott Waugh . To his dismay, much of his time was spent on administrative concerns, as well as combating criticism from home. The East India Company had provisionally appointed Thomas Jervis as Everest's successor, and Jervis subsequently delivered a series of lectures to the Royal Society on the perceived deficiencies of Everest's methods. In response, Everest penned a series of open letters to Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex , the society's president, in which he lambasted the society "for meddling in matters of which they know little". Jervis withdrew from consideration, and Everest successfully secured the appointment of his protégé Waugh as his successor. He resigned in November 1842 and his commission was formally revoked in December 1843, at which point he returned to England. [ 14 ] In London on 11 November 1846 Everest married Emma Wing, aged 23, of Hampstead, London . [ 17 ] They had six children. [ 13 ] Everest's grave, St Andrew's Church, Hove , East Sussex . In 1847, Everest published An Account of the Measurement of Two Sections of the Meridional Arc of India , for which he was awarded a medal by the Royal Astronomical Society . He was later elected to fellowship of the Royal Asiatic Society and the Royal Geographical Society . Everest was promoted to colonel in 1854, made a Commander of the Order of the Bath in February 1861, [ 18 ] and created a Knight Bachelor in March 1861. [ 19 ] He died at his home in Hyde Park Gardens on 1 December 1866, and was buried in St Andrew's Church, Hove near Brighton . [ 14 ] Naming of Mount Everest [ edit ] George Everest had no direct connection with the mountain which bears his name , which he never saw. He was, however, responsible for hiring Andrew Scott Waugh , who made the first formal observations of the mountain, and Radhanath Sikdar , who calculated its height. Before its significance was realised, Mount Everest was originally known as Peak "B" and later as Peak XV. In March 1856, Waugh wrote to the Royal Geographical Society to announce that the mountain was believed to be the highest in the world, and proposed that it be named "after my illustrious predecessor", as it was "without any local name that we can discover" – the "native appellation, if it has any, will not very likely be ascertained before we are allowed to penetrate into Nepal". There were in fact several native names among the Nepalese and Tibetans , but those areas were closed off to the British at the time and people living further to the south of the Himalayas did not have a specific name for the peak. In the decade after 1856, Waugh's proposal was widely debated by the Royal Geographical Society and similar bodies. Other scholars of India put forward native names that they believed to be correct, such as Brian Houghton Hodgson 's "Deva-dhunga" and Hermann Schlagintweit 's "Gaurisankar". Everest himself objected to his name being used, as "the native of India" could not pronounce it and it could not be easily written in Hindi . Nonetheless, in 1865 the society officially settled on "Mount Everest" as the name. [ 20 ] Everest had several siblings, including two younger brothers. George's first younger brother was Robert Everest, chaplain to the East India Company and author of A Journey Through the United States and Part of Canada . [ 21 ] His second (his youngest brother) was the Thomas Roupell Everest, the father of Mary Everest and a lay homoeopath . George Everest's third child, Ethel Everest, was an associate of Emma Cons and friend of Lilian Baylis . [ 22 ] She provided financial support for the founding of Morley College in south London. [ 23 ] One of Everest's sons, Lancelot Feilding Everest, was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge , and was called to the Bar by Lincoln's Inn . He practised as a barrister in chambers in London and was also the principal author of The Law of Estoppel . [ 24 ] Lancelot's eldest son, Cyril Feilding Everest, enlisted in the Canadian Infantry on 17 November 1914 and was killed in action on 9 October 1916 at the Battle of the Somme . [ 25 ] [ 26 ] Everest's niece, Mary Everest , married mathematician George Boole in Gloucestershire on 11 September 1855. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] In spite of the absence of formal training, Mary was a fine mathematician in her own right, as was one of her daughters, Alicia Boole Stott . Alicia's son, Leonard Boole Stott, studied medicine and became a pioneer in the treatment and control of tuberculosis , work for which he was later appointed an OBE [ 29 ] Mary Boole's daughter Margaret was the mother of Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor OM , a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, a renowned mathematician and physicist, and a major figure in fluid dynamics and wave theory. [ 30 ] Sir George Everest house in Mussoorie, India [ edit ] Park House from above Sir George Everest's House and Laboratory, also known as Park House Everest owned a house in Mussoorie, India for about 11 years. [ 31 ] He purchased it, sight unseen, from General William Sampson Whish (1787–1853). [ 32 ] Built in 1832, the house is known today as Sir George Everest's House and Laboratory, or Park House. The house is in Park Estate about 6 kilometres (4 mi) west of Gandhi Chowk / Library Bazaar (the west end of Mall Road in Mussoorie). The location has panoramic views of the Doon Valley on one side and the Aglar River valley and the Himalayan Range to the north. After renovation at a cost of Rs 23.71 crore , the house was opened as a museum in December 2021. [ 33 ] ^ Olausson, Lena; Sangster, Catherine M. (2006). Oxford BBC guide to pronunciation: the essential handbook of the spoken word . Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 124. 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This uncertainty as to his birthplace arises because his father William Tristram Everest had an estate near Crickhowell in south Wales and some reference works suggest he was born there. [...] George's baptismal certificate certainly indicates that he was baptized in Greenwich but although the certificate also bears his date of birth it does not indicate the locality." Smith, James R. (2015). "Sir George Everest". In Martin, Geoffrey (ed.). Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 15 . Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781474226653 . ^ Salkeld, Audrey ( American Alpine Club ) - The American alpine journal . 32.1990. p. 71. ISBN 1933056371 Retrieved 18 November 2017 ^ "Gwernvale Manor Hotel" . Parks and Gardens UK . Archived from the original on 1 December 2017 . Retrieved 18 November 2017 . ^ Ahluwalia, H. P. S. (2001) The Everest within . Hemkunt Press. p. 13. 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After a military education, Everest joined the [East India Company](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company "East India Company") and arrived in India at the age of 16. He was eventually made an assistant to [William Lambton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lambton "William Lambton") on the [Great Trigonometric Survey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Trigonometric_Survey "Great Trigonometric Survey"), and replaced Lambton as superintendent of the survey in 1823. Everest was largely responsible for surveying the [meridian arc](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meridian_arc "Meridian arc") from the southernmost point of [India](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India "India") north to [Nepal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepal "Nepal"), a distance of about 2,400 kilometres (1,500 mi), a task that took from 1806 to 1841 to complete. He was made Surveyor General of India in 1830, retiring in 1843 and returning to England. In 1865, the [Royal Geographical Society](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Geographical_Society "Royal Geographical Society") renamed Peak XV—at the time only recently identified as the world's highest peak—to [Mount Everest](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Everest "Mount Everest") in his honour.[\[4\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-4) [Andrew Scott Waugh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Scott_Waugh "Andrew Scott Waugh"), his protégé and successor as surveyor general, had been responsible for putting his name forward in 1856. Everest's name was used as a compromise due to the difficulty of choosing between multiple local names for the mountain. He initially objected to the honour, as he had had nothing to do with its discovery and believed his name was not easily written or pronounced in [Hindi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindi "Hindi").[\[5\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-BBC_mwde-5)[\[6\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-6)[\[7\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-7) ## Biography \[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_Everest&action=edit&section=1 "Edit section: Biography")\] Everest was born on 4 July 1790, but his birthplace is uncertain.[\[8\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-r1-8)[\[9\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-9) He was baptised at [St Alfege Church](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Alfege_Church,_Greenwich "St Alfege Church, Greenwich") in [Greenwich, London](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich "Greenwich"), on 27 January 1791.[\[10\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-10) He was born either at Greenwich or at Gwernvale Manor, his family's estate near [Crickhowell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crickhowell "Crickhowell"), [Brecknockshire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brecknockshire "Brecknockshire") (now part of [Powys](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powys "Powys")) in [Wales](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wales "Wales").[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-11)[\[12\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-12) Everest was the eldest son and third of six children born to Lucetta Mary (née Smith) and William Tristram Everest. His father was a solicitor and [justice of the peace](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_of_the_peace "Justice of the peace"), part of a "Greenwich family of long standing", and was successful enough to acquire a large estate in [south Wales](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Wales "South Wales"). His grandfather John Everest, the son of a butcher, was the first in the family to enter the legal profession. The Everest family in Greenwich can be traced at least as far back as the late 1600s, when Tristram Everest–John's great-grandfather–was a butcher in Church Street.[\[8\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-r1-8) Everest was educated at the [Royal Military College](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Military_College,_Sandhurst "Royal Military College, Sandhurst") in [Marlow, Buckinghamshire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlow,_Buckinghamshire "Marlow, Buckinghamshire"), followed by a year at the [Royal Military Academy, Woolwich](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Military_Academy,_Woolwich "Royal Military Academy, Woolwich"), the military engineers' and artillery training college. He joined the [East India Company](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company "East India Company") as a cadet in 1806 (before he had reached the required age of 16[\[13\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-jrs-13)). He was commissioned as a [second lieutenant](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_lieutenant "Second lieutenant") in the [Bengal Artillery](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_Artillery "Bengal Artillery"), and sailed for [India](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India "India") in the same year.[\[14\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-odnb-14) Everest was a [Freemason](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemason "Freemason")[\[13\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-jrs-13) and initiated on an unknown date in Neptune Lodge, [Penang](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penang "Penang"), under the authority of the [United Grand Lodge of England](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Grand_Lodge_of_England "United Grand Lodge of England"). After returning to England, he joined Prince of Wales' Lodge, London, on 20 February 1829.[\[15\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-Gila_Valley-15) ### Early career in India \[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_Everest&action=edit&section=2 "Edit section: Early career in India")\] Little is known about Everest's earliest years in India, but when he first arrived in the country at 16 years old he showed a talent for mathematics and astronomy. He was seconded to [Java](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Java "British Java") in 1814, where Lieutenant-Governor [Stamford Raffles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamford_Raffles "Stamford Raffles") appointed him to survey the island.[\[13\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-jrs-13) Everest returned to Bengal in 1816, where he improved British knowledge of the [Ganges](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganges "Ganges") and the [Hooghly River](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooghly_River "Hooghly River"). He later surveyed a [semaphore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaphore "Semaphore") line from [Calcutta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcutta "Calcutta") to [Benares](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benares "Benares"), covering approximately 400 miles (640 km). Everest's work came to the attention of Colonel [William Lambton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lambton "William Lambton"), the leader of the [Great Trigonometrical Survey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Trigonometrical_Survey "Great Trigonometrical Survey") (GTS), who appointed him as his chief assistant. He joined Lambton at [Hyderabad, India](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyderabad "Hyderabad") in 1818, where he was in the process of surveying a [meridian arc](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meridian_arc "Meridian arc") northward from [Cape Commorin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Commorin "Cape Commorin"). He was responsible for much of the fieldwork, but then in 1820 contracted [malaria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaria "Malaria"), necessitating a period of recovery spent at the [Cape of Good Hope](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_of_Good_Hope "Cape of Good Hope") in [South Africa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa "South Africa").[\[14\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-odnb-14) Recovering from malaria, Everest returned to India in 1821. He succeeded Lambton as superintendent of the GTS upon Lambton's death in 1823, and during the following years extended his predecessor's efforts on the arc up to [Sironj](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sironj "Sironj"), in present-day [Madhya Pradesh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhya_Pradesh "Madhya Pradesh"). Everest was prone to suffer from poor health, however, and the effects of a bout of fever and rheumatism left him half paralysed. He returned to England in 1825, where he spent the following five years recuperating. During that time, Everest was elected as a [Fellow of the Royal Society](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society "Fellow of the Royal Society") in March 1827. Most of his free time was spent lobbying the East India Company for better equipment and studying the methods used by the [Ordnance Survey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnance_Survey "Ordnance Survey"); he frequently corresponded with [Thomas Frederick Colby](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Frederick_Colby "Thomas Frederick Colby").[\[14\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-odnb-14) He became acquainted with Indian thought, according to his niece Mary Boole:[\[16\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-16) > My uncle, George Everest, was sent to India in 1806 at the age of sixteen. \[...\] the boy went out ignorant, un-spoiled and fresh. He made the acquaintance of a learned Brahman who taught him—not the details of his own ritual, as European missionaries do, but—the essential factor in all true religion, the secret of how man may hold communion with the Infinite Unknown. It is very likely he introduced Indian thought to others as well: > Some time about 1825, he came to England for two or three years, and made a fast and lifelong friendship with [Herschel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Herschel "John Herschel") and with [Babbage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage "Charles Babbage"), who was then quite young.(.) My uncle returned from India. He never interfered with anyone's religious beliefs or customs. But no one under his influence could continue to believe in anything in the Bible being specially sacred, except the two elements which it has in common with other sacred books: the knowledge of our relation to others and of man's power to hold direct converse with the unseen truth. ### Surveyor General of India \[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_Everest&action=edit&section=3 "Edit section: Surveyor General of India")\] In June 1830, Everest returned to India to continue his work on the GTS, and was simultaneously appointed [Surveyor General of India](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveyor_General_of_India "Surveyor General of India"). The arc from Cape Commorin to the northern border of British India was finally completed in 1841, under the supervision of [Andrew Scott Waugh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Scott_Waugh "Andrew Scott Waugh"). To his dismay, much of his time was spent on administrative concerns, as well as combating criticism from home. The East India Company had provisionally appointed Thomas Jervis as Everest's successor, and Jervis subsequently delivered a series of lectures to the Royal Society on the perceived deficiencies of Everest's methods. In response, Everest penned a series of open letters to [Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Augustus_Frederick,_Duke_of_Sussex "Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex"), the society's president, in which he lambasted the society "for meddling in matters of which they know little". Jervis withdrew from consideration, and Everest successfully secured the appointment of his protégé Waugh as his successor. He resigned in November 1842 and his commission was formally revoked in December 1843, at which point he returned to England.[\[14\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-odnb-14) ### Later life \[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_Everest&action=edit&section=4 "Edit section: Later life")\] In London on 11 November 1846 Everest married Emma Wing, aged 23, of [Hampstead, London](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampstead "Hampstead").[\[17\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-17) They had six children.[\[13\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-jrs-13) [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/G_Everest_grave_Hove.jpg/250px-G_Everest_grave_Hove.jpg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:G_Everest_grave_Hove.jpg) Everest's grave, [St Andrew's Church, Hove](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Andrew%27s_Church,_Church_Road,_Hove "St Andrew's Church, Church Road, Hove"), [East Sussex](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Sussex "East Sussex"). In 1847, Everest published An Account of the Measurement of Two Sections of the Meridional Arc of India, for which he was awarded a medal by the [Royal Astronomical Society](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Astronomical_Society "Royal Astronomical Society"). He was later elected to fellowship of the [Royal Asiatic Society](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Asiatic_Society_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland "Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland") and the [Royal Geographical Society](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Geographical_Society "Royal Geographical Society"). Everest was promoted to [colonel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel "Colonel") in 1854, made a [Commander of the Order of the Bath](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_Bath "Commander of the Order of the Bath") in February 1861,[\[18\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-18) and created a [Knight Bachelor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Bachelor "Knight Bachelor") in March 1861.[\[19\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-19) He died at his home in [Hyde Park Gardens](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyde_Park_Gardens "Hyde Park Gardens") on 1 December 1866, and was buried in [St Andrew's Church, Hove](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Andrew%27s_Church,_Church_Road,_Hove "St Andrew's Church, Church Road, Hove") near [Brighton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton "Brighton").[\[14\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-odnb-14) ## Naming of Mount Everest \[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_Everest&action=edit&section=5 "Edit section: Naming of Mount Everest")\] George Everest had no direct connection with the [mountain which bears his name](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Everest "Mount Everest"), which he never saw. He was, however, responsible for hiring [Andrew Scott Waugh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Scott_Waugh "Andrew Scott Waugh"), who made the first formal observations of the mountain, and [Radhanath Sikdar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radhanath_Sikdar "Radhanath Sikdar"), who calculated its height. Before its significance was realised, Mount Everest was originally known as Peak "B" and later as Peak XV. In March 1856, Waugh wrote to the [Royal Geographical Society](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Geographical_Society "Royal Geographical Society") to announce that the mountain was believed to be the highest in the world, and proposed that it be named "after my illustrious predecessor", as it was "without any local name that we can discover" – the "native appellation, if it has any, will not very likely be ascertained before we are allowed to penetrate into Nepal". There were in fact several native names among the [Nepalese](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepal "Nepal") and [Tibetans](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibet "Tibet"), but those areas were closed off to the British at the time and people living further to the south of the Himalayas did not have a specific name for the peak. In the decade after 1856, Waugh's proposal was widely debated by the Royal Geographical Society and similar bodies. Other scholars of India put forward native names that they believed to be correct, such as [Brian Houghton Hodgson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Houghton_Hodgson "Brian Houghton Hodgson")'s "Deva-dhunga" and [Hermann Schlagintweit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Schlagintweit "Hermann Schlagintweit")'s "Gaurisankar". Everest himself objected to his name being used, as "the native of India" could not pronounce it and it could not be easily written in [Hindi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindi "Hindi"). Nonetheless, in 1865 the society officially settled on "Mount Everest" as the name.[\[20\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-20) ## Family \[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_Everest&action=edit&section=6 "Edit section: Family")\] Everest had several siblings, including two younger brothers. George's first younger brother was Robert Everest, chaplain to the East India Company and author of A Journey Through the United States and Part of Canada.[\[21\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-21) His second (his youngest brother) was the Thomas Roupell Everest, the father of Mary Everest and a lay [homoeopath](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy "Homeopathy"). George Everest's third child, Ethel Everest, was an associate of [Emma Cons](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Cons "Emma Cons") and friend of [Lilian Baylis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilian_Baylis "Lilian Baylis").[\[22\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-22) She provided financial support for the founding of [Morley College](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morley_College "Morley College") in south London.[\[23\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-23) One of Everest's sons, Lancelot Feilding Everest, was educated at [Harrow School](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrow_School "Harrow School") and [Trinity College, Cambridge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_College,_Cambridge "Trinity College, Cambridge"), and was called to [the Bar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_\(law\) "Bar (law)") by [Lincoln's Inn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%27s_Inn "Lincoln's Inn"). He practised as a barrister in chambers in London and was also the principal author of The Law of Estoppel.[\[24\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-24) Lancelot's eldest son, Cyril Feilding Everest, enlisted in the Canadian Infantry on 17 November 1914 and was killed in action on 9 October 1916 at the [Battle of the Somme](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Somme "Battle of the Somme").[\[25\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-25)[\[26\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-26) Everest's niece, [Mary Everest](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Everest_Boole "Mary Everest Boole"), married mathematician [George Boole](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Boole "George Boole") in Gloucestershire on 11 September 1855.[\[27\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-27)[\[28\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-28) In spite of the absence of formal training, Mary was a fine mathematician in her own right, as was one of her daughters, [Alicia Boole Stott](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alicia_Boole_Stott "Alicia Boole Stott"). Alicia's son, Leonard Boole Stott, studied medicine and became a pioneer in the treatment and control of [tuberculosis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuberculosis "Tuberculosis"), work for which he was later appointed an [OBE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_British_Empire "Order of the British Empire")[\[29\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-29) Mary Boole's daughter Margaret was the mother of Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor [OM](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Merit "Order of Merit"), a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, a renowned mathematician and physicist, and a major figure in fluid dynamics and wave theory.[\[30\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-30) ## Sir George Everest house in Mussoorie, India \[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_Everest&action=edit&section=7 "Edit section: Sir George Everest house in Mussoorie, India")\] [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/George_everest_house.jpg/250px-George_everest_house.jpg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:George_everest_house.jpg) Park House from above [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Park_House_17b.jpg/250px-Park_House_17b.jpg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Park_House_17b.jpg) Sir George Everest's House and Laboratory, also known as Park House Everest owned a house in [Mussoorie, India](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mussoorie "Mussoorie") for about 11 years.[\[31\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-31) He purchased it, sight unseen, from General William Sampson Whish (1787–1853).[\[32\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-32) Built in 1832, the house is known today as Sir George Everest's House and Laboratory, or Park House. The house is in Park Estate about 6 kilometres (4 mi) west of Gandhi Chowk / Library Bazaar (the west end of Mall Road in Mussoorie). The location has panoramic views of the [Doon Valley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doon_Valley "Doon Valley") on one side and the Aglar River valley and the [Himalayan Range](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himalayan_Range "Himalayan Range") to the north. After renovation at a cost of [Rs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupee "Rupee") 23.71 [crore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crore "Crore"), the house was opened as a museum in December 2021.[\[33\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-33) ## References \[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_Everest&action=edit&section=8 "Edit section: References")\] 1. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-1) Olausson, Lena; Sangster, Catherine M. (2006). Oxford BBC guide to pronunciation: the essential handbook of the spoken word. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 124. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)") [978-0-19-280710-6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-280710-6 "Special:BookSources/978-0-19-280710-6") . 2. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-2) Claypole, Jonty (Director); Kunzru, Hari (Presenter) (2003). [Mapping Everest](https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0074phg) (TV Documentary). London: BBC Television. 3. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-:0_3-0) Dean, Riaz (2019). Mapping The Great Game: Explorers, Spies & Maps in Nineteenth-century Asia. Oxford: Casemate (UK). p. 100. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)") [978-1-61200-814-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-61200-814-1 "Special:BookSources/978-1-61200-814-1") . 4. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-4) Wallace, Colin. ["Mount Everest – The British Story"](https://web.archive.org/web/20150925110548/http://www.everest1953.co.uk/NamingMountEverest.php). Archived from [the original](http://www.everest1953.co.uk/NamingMountEverest.php) on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 2 November 2015. 5. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-BBC_mwde_5-0) Biswas, Soutik (20 October 2003). ["The man who 'discovered' Everest"](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3193576.stm). BBC News. Retrieved 9 August 2016. 6. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-6) See report in 'The Illustrated London News', 15 August 1857 7. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-7) Ram Copal Sanyal, ed. (1894), [Reminiscences and anecdotes of great men of India: both official and non-official for the last one hundred years](https://books.google.com/books?id=0BYdAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA25), p. 25 8. ^ [*a](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-r1_8-0) [b](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-r1_8-1) "George Everest was born on 4 July 1790 but the location is open to doubt. This uncertainty as to his birthplace arises because his father William Tristram Everest had an estate near Crickhowell in south [Wales](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wales "Wales") and some reference works suggest he was born there. \[...\] George's baptismal certificate certainly indicates that he was baptized in Greenwich but although the certificate also bears his date of birth it does not indicate the locality." Smith, James R. (2015). "Sir George Everest". In Martin, Geoffrey (ed.). [Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 15](https://books.google.com/books?id=w3skCwAAQBAJ). Bloomsbury Publishing. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)") [9781474226653](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781474226653 "Special:BookSources/9781474226653") . 9. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-9)* Salkeld, Audrey ([American Alpine Club](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Alpine_Club "American Alpine Club")) - [The American alpine journal](https://books.google.com/books?id=OLij19S1ftAC&pg=PA71). 32.1990. p. 71. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)") [1933056371](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1933056371 "Special:BookSources/1933056371") Retrieved 18 November 2017 10. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-10) ["Gwernvale Manor Hotel"](https://web.archive.org/web/20171201041914/http://www.parksandgardens.org/places-and-people/site/8302/history). Parks and Gardens UK. Archived from [the original](http://www.parksandgardens.org/places-and-people/site/8302/history) on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 18 November 2017. 11. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-11) Ahluwalia, H. P. S. (2001) [The Everest within](https://books.google.com/books?id=lLvPiyCNTnwC&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13). Hemkunt Press. p. 13. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)") [8170103096](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/8170103096 "Special:BookSources/8170103096") Retrieved 18 November 2017 12. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-12) [BBC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC "BBC") (7 March 2000) [Celebrating Wales on top of the world](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/669629.stm). 13. ^ [*a](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-jrs_13-0) [b](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-jrs_13-1) [c](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-jrs_13-2) [d](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-jrs_13-3) Smith, James R. (1992). ["Sir George Everest, F.R.S. (1790–1866)"](https://www.jstor.org/stable/531442). Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London. 46* (1): 89–102\. [doi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doi_\(identifier\) "Doi (identifier)"):[10\.1098/rsnr.1992.0005](https://doi.org/10.1098%2Frsnr.1992.0005). [ISSN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISSN_\(identifier\) "ISSN (identifier)") [0035-9149](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0035-9149). [JSTOR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSTOR_\(identifier\) "JSTOR (identifier)") [531442](https://www.jstor.org/stable/531442). 14. ^ [*a](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-odnb_14-0) [b](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-odnb_14-1) [c](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-odnb_14-2) [d](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-odnb_14-3) [e](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-odnb_14-4) Baigent, Elizabeth. "Everest, Sir George". [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography#Oxford_Dictionary_of_National_Biography "Dictionary of National Biography")* (online ed.). Oxford University Press. [doi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doi_\(identifier\) "Doi (identifier)"):[10\.1093/ref:odnb/9003](https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fref%3Aodnb%2F9003). (Subscription, [Wikipedia Library](https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/88/) access or [UK public library membership](https://www.oxforddnb.com/help/subscribe#public) required.) 15. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-Gila_Valley_15-0) ["Freemasons and the Royal Society"](http://gilavalleylodge9.wordpress.com/2010/06/27/freemasons-and-the-royal-society/). Gila Valley Lodge No 9. 28 June 2010. Retrieved 25 February 2018. 16. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-16) Mary Everest Boole (1901). [Indian Thought and Western Science in the Nineteenth Century](http://archive.org/details/indianthoughtwes00bool). Library Genesis. The Ceylon National Review. 17. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-17) ["St George, Hanover Square 1846–1847"](https://www.ancestryinstitution.com/search/collections/61867/records/90884013). Ancestry.com. 18. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-18) ["No. 7097"](https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/7097/page/289). [The Edinburgh Gazette](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Edinburgh_Gazette "The Edinburgh Gazette"). 1 March 1861. p. 289. 19. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-19) ["No. 22493"](https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/22493/page/1241). [The London Gazette](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_London_Gazette "The London Gazette"). 19 March 1861. p. 1241. 20. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-20) [The Naming of Mount Everest](https://www.montana.edu/everest/facts/naming.html). Montana State University website. Accessed 11 January 2023. 21. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-21) Everest, Robert. A Journey Through the United States and Part of Canada. John Chapman: King William Street, Strand, London, 1855. 22. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-22) Schafer, Elizabeth (2006) [Lilian Baylis: A Biography](https://books.google.com/books?id=U4Y6Jyc0vSAC&pg=PA76). Univ of Hertfordshire Press. p. 76. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)") [9781902806648](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781902806648 "Special:BookSources/9781902806648") 23. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-23) Richards, Denis (2013) [Offspring of the Vic: A History of Morley College](https://books.google.com/books?id=d6X0JhHB8-8C&pg=PT60). Routledge. p. 60. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)") [9781135030858](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781135030858 "Special:BookSources/9781135030858") 24. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-24) Everest, Lancelot Feilding. The Law of Estoppel. Stevens and Sons: 119, Chancery Lane, London, 1881. 25. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-25) ["Canadian Great War Project"](https://web.archive.org/web/20201127045004/http://canadiangreatwarproject.com/searches/soldierDetailPrint.asp?ID=60846). Archived from [the original](http://canadiangreatwarproject.com/searches/soldierDetailPrint.asp?ID=60846) on 27 November 2020. Retrieved 1 July 2016. 26. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-26) ["Every Man Remembered – Soldier Profile Private Cyril Fielding Everest"](https://web.archive.org/web/20140730101710/http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/1567689/). Archived from [the original](http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/1567689) on 30 July 2014. 27. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-27) Creese, Mary (2004). "Boole, Mary". [ODNB](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ODNB "ODNB"). [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography#Oxford_Dictionary_of_National_Biography "Dictionary of National Biography") (online ed.). Oxford University Press. [doi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doi_\(identifier\) "Doi (identifier)"):[10\.1093/ref:odnb/38817](https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fref%3Aodnb%2F38817). (Subscription, [Wikipedia Library](https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/88/) access or [UK public library membership](https://www.oxforddnb.com/help/subscribe#public) required.) 28. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-28) ["Gloucestershire, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1938"](https://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=5156). search.ancestry.co.uk. Retrieved 28 January 2016. 29. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-29) Creese, Mary R. S. (1998). Ladies in the Laboratory? American and British Women in Science, 1800–1900: A Survey of their Contributions to Research. The Scarecrow Press, Inc. p. 199. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)") [9780810832879](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780810832879 "Special:BookSources/9780810832879") . 30. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-30) Batchelor, George (1994). The Life and Legacy of G.I. Taylor. Cambridge University Press. p. 25. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)") [0521461219](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0521461219 "Special:BookSources/0521461219") . 31. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-31) Nigam, Devesh (2002). Tourism, environment, and development of Garhwal Himalaya (1. ed.). New Delhi, India: Mittal Publications. p. 54. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)") [81-7099-870-0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/81-7099-870-0 "Special:BookSources/81-7099-870-0") . 32. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-32) Phillimore, Reginald (July 1955). "Stokes' School, Mussoorie". The Indian Archives. IX (2). New Delhi: [National Archives of India](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Archives_of_India "National Archives of India") (published December 1955): 101. 33. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-33) Jain, Anmol (8 December 2021). ["Renovated Sir George Everest House in Mussoorie opens to public"](https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/dehradun/renovated-sir-george-everest-house-in-mussoorie-opens-to-public/articleshow/88151580.cms). [The Times of India](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Times_of_India "The Times of India"). ## Further reading \[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_Everest&action=edit&section=9 "Edit section: Further reading")\] - John Keay. 2000. The Great Arc. London: HarperCollins. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)") [0-00-257062-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-00-257062-9 "Special:BookSources/0-00-257062-9") . - J. R. Smith. 1999. Everest: The Man and the Mountain. Caithness: Whittles Publishing. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)") [1-870325-72-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-870325-72-9 "Special:BookSources/1-870325-72-9") . - Dean, Riaz (2019). Mapping the Great Game: Explorers, Spies and Maps in 19th-Century Asia. Oxford, UK: Casemate. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)") [978-1-61200-815-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-61200-815-8 "Special:BookSources/978-1-61200-815-8") . [OCLC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCLC_\(identifier\) "OCLC (identifier)") [1127908291](https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/1127908291). ## External links \[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_Everest&action=edit&section=10 "Edit section: External links")\] [![logo](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/40px-Commons-logo.svg.png)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Commons-logo.svg) Wikimedia Commons has media related to [George Everest](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:George_Everest "commons:Category:George Everest"). - [Chisholm, Hugh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Chisholm "Hugh Chisholm"), ed. (1911). 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Readable Markdown	From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia \| [Sir](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir "Sir")George Everest[KCB](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_Bath "Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath") [FRS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society "Fellow of the Royal Society") [FRAS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Astronomical_Society "Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society") [FRGS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Geographical_Society "Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society") \| \| \|---\|---\| \| [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/George_Everest_-_Maull_%26_Polyblank.jpg/250px-George_Everest_-_Maull_%26_Polyblank.jpg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:George_Everest_-_Maull_%26_Polyblank.jpg) \| \| \| Born \| 4 July 1790 [Crickhowell, Wales](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crickhowell "Crickhowell"), or [Greenwich, England](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich,_England "Greenwich, England") \| \| Died \| 1 December 1866 (aged 76) [London, England](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London,_England "London, England") \| \| Known for \| [Great Trigonometric Survey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Trigonometric_Survey "Great Trigonometric Survey") of India; Being the eponym of [Mount Everest](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Everest "Mount Everest") \| \| Awards \| Medal of the [Royal Astronomical Society](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Astronomical_Society "Royal Astronomical Society") (1847) \| \| Scientific career \| \| \| Fields \| [Geography](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography "Geography") \| Sir George Everest, [CB](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Companion_of_the_Order_of_the_Bath "Companion of the Order of the Bath"), [FRS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society "Fellow of the Royal Society"), [FRAS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Astronomical_Society "Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society"), [FRGS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Geographical_Society "Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society") (, [EEV\-rist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key "Help:Pronunciation respelling key");[\[1\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-1)[\[2\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-2)[\[3\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-:0-3) 4 July 1790 – 1 December 1866) was a British surveyor and geographer who served as [Surveyor General of India](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveyor_General_of_India "Surveyor General of India") from 1830 to 1843. After a military education, Everest joined the [East India Company](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company "East India Company") and arrived in India at the age of 16. He was eventually made an assistant to [William Lambton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lambton "William Lambton") on the [Great Trigonometric Survey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Trigonometric_Survey "Great Trigonometric Survey"), and replaced Lambton as superintendent of the survey in 1823. Everest was largely responsible for surveying the [meridian arc](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meridian_arc "Meridian arc") from the southernmost point of [India](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India "India") north to [Nepal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepal "Nepal"), a distance of about 2,400 kilometres (1,500 mi), a task that took from 1806 to 1841 to complete. He was made Surveyor General of India in 1830, retiring in 1843 and returning to England. In 1865, the [Royal Geographical Society](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Geographical_Society "Royal Geographical Society") renamed Peak XV—at the time only recently identified as the world's highest peak—to [Mount Everest](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Everest "Mount Everest") in his honour.[\[4\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-4) [Andrew Scott Waugh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Scott_Waugh "Andrew Scott Waugh"), his protégé and successor as surveyor general, had been responsible for putting his name forward in 1856. Everest's name was used as a compromise due to the difficulty of choosing between multiple local names for the mountain. He initially objected to the honour, as he had had nothing to do with its discovery and believed his name was not easily written or pronounced in [Hindi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindi "Hindi").[\[5\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-BBC_mwde-5)[\[6\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-6)[\[7\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-7) Everest was born on 4 July 1790, but his birthplace is uncertain.[\[8\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-r1-8)[\[9\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-9) He was baptised at [St Alfege Church](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Alfege_Church,_Greenwich "St Alfege Church, Greenwich") in [Greenwich, London](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich "Greenwich"), on 27 January 1791.[\[10\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-10) He was born either at Greenwich or at Gwernvale Manor, his family's estate near [Crickhowell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crickhowell "Crickhowell"), [Brecknockshire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brecknockshire "Brecknockshire") (now part of [Powys](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powys "Powys")) in [Wales](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wales "Wales").[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-11)[\[12\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-12) Everest was the eldest son and third of six children born to Lucetta Mary (née Smith) and William Tristram Everest. His father was a solicitor and [justice of the peace](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_of_the_peace "Justice of the peace"), part of a "Greenwich family of long standing", and was successful enough to acquire a large estate in [south Wales](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Wales "South Wales"). His grandfather John Everest, the son of a butcher, was the first in the family to enter the legal profession. The Everest family in Greenwich can be traced at least as far back as the late 1600s, when Tristram Everest–John's great-grandfather–was a butcher in Church Street.[\[8\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-r1-8) Everest was educated at the [Royal Military College](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Military_College,_Sandhurst "Royal Military College, Sandhurst") in [Marlow, Buckinghamshire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlow,_Buckinghamshire "Marlow, Buckinghamshire"), followed by a year at the [Royal Military Academy, Woolwich](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Military_Academy,_Woolwich "Royal Military Academy, Woolwich"), the military engineers' and artillery training college. He joined the [East India Company](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company "East India Company") as a cadet in 1806 (before he had reached the required age of 16[\[13\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-jrs-13)). He was commissioned as a [second lieutenant](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_lieutenant "Second lieutenant") in the [Bengal Artillery](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_Artillery "Bengal Artillery"), and sailed for [India](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India "India") in the same year.[\[14\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-odnb-14) Everest was a [Freemason](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemason "Freemason")[\[13\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-jrs-13) and initiated on an unknown date in Neptune Lodge, [Penang](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penang "Penang"), under the authority of the [United Grand Lodge of England](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Grand_Lodge_of_England "United Grand Lodge of England"). After returning to England, he joined Prince of Wales' Lodge, London, on 20 February 1829.[\[15\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-Gila_Valley-15) ### Early career in India \[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_Everest&action=edit&section=2 "Edit section: Early career in India")\] Little is known about Everest's earliest years in India, but when he first arrived in the country at 16 years old he showed a talent for mathematics and astronomy. He was seconded to [Java](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Java "British Java") in 1814, where Lieutenant-Governor [Stamford Raffles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamford_Raffles "Stamford Raffles") appointed him to survey the island.[\[13\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-jrs-13) Everest returned to Bengal in 1816, where he improved British knowledge of the [Ganges](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganges "Ganges") and the [Hooghly River](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooghly_River "Hooghly River"). He later surveyed a [semaphore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaphore "Semaphore") line from [Calcutta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcutta "Calcutta") to [Benares](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benares "Benares"), covering approximately 400 miles (640 km). Everest's work came to the attention of Colonel [William Lambton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lambton "William Lambton"), the leader of the [Great Trigonometrical Survey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Trigonometrical_Survey "Great Trigonometrical Survey") (GTS), who appointed him as his chief assistant. He joined Lambton at [Hyderabad, India](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyderabad "Hyderabad") in 1818, where he was in the process of surveying a [meridian arc](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meridian_arc "Meridian arc") northward from [Cape Commorin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Commorin "Cape Commorin"). He was responsible for much of the fieldwork, but then in 1820 contracted [malaria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaria "Malaria"), necessitating a period of recovery spent at the [Cape of Good Hope](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_of_Good_Hope "Cape of Good Hope") in [South Africa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa "South Africa").[\[14\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-odnb-14) Recovering from malaria, Everest returned to India in 1821. He succeeded Lambton as superintendent of the GTS upon Lambton's death in 1823, and during the following years extended his predecessor's efforts on the arc up to [Sironj](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sironj "Sironj"), in present-day [Madhya Pradesh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhya_Pradesh "Madhya Pradesh"). Everest was prone to suffer from poor health, however, and the effects of a bout of fever and rheumatism left him half paralysed. He returned to England in 1825, where he spent the following five years recuperating. During that time, Everest was elected as a [Fellow of the Royal Society](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society "Fellow of the Royal Society") in March 1827. Most of his free time was spent lobbying the East India Company for better equipment and studying the methods used by the [Ordnance Survey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnance_Survey "Ordnance Survey"); he frequently corresponded with [Thomas Frederick Colby](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Frederick_Colby "Thomas Frederick Colby").[\[14\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-odnb-14) He became acquainted with Indian thought, according to his niece Mary Boole:[\[16\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-16) > My uncle, George Everest, was sent to India in 1806 at the age of sixteen. \[...\] the boy went out ignorant, un-spoiled and fresh. He made the acquaintance of a learned Brahman who taught him—not the details of his own ritual, as European missionaries do, but—the essential factor in all true religion, the secret of how man may hold communion with the Infinite Unknown. It is very likely he introduced Indian thought to others as well: > Some time about 1825, he came to England for two or three years, and made a fast and lifelong friendship with [Herschel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Herschel "John Herschel") and with [Babbage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage "Charles Babbage"), who was then quite young.(.) My uncle returned from India. He never interfered with anyone's religious beliefs or customs. But no one under his influence could continue to believe in anything in the Bible being specially sacred, except the two elements which it has in common with other sacred books: the knowledge of our relation to others and of man's power to hold direct converse with the unseen truth. ### Surveyor General of India \[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_Everest&action=edit&section=3 "Edit section: Surveyor General of India")\] In June 1830, Everest returned to India to continue his work on the GTS, and was simultaneously appointed [Surveyor General of India](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveyor_General_of_India "Surveyor General of India"). The arc from Cape Commorin to the northern border of British India was finally completed in 1841, under the supervision of [Andrew Scott Waugh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Scott_Waugh "Andrew Scott Waugh"). To his dismay, much of his time was spent on administrative concerns, as well as combating criticism from home. The East India Company had provisionally appointed Thomas Jervis as Everest's successor, and Jervis subsequently delivered a series of lectures to the Royal Society on the perceived deficiencies of Everest's methods. In response, Everest penned a series of open letters to [Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Augustus_Frederick,_Duke_of_Sussex "Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex"), the society's president, in which he lambasted the society "for meddling in matters of which they know little". Jervis withdrew from consideration, and Everest successfully secured the appointment of his protégé Waugh as his successor. He resigned in November 1842 and his commission was formally revoked in December 1843, at which point he returned to England.[\[14\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-odnb-14) In London on 11 November 1846 Everest married Emma Wing, aged 23, of [Hampstead, London](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampstead "Hampstead").[\[17\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-17) They had six children.[\[13\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-jrs-13) [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/G_Everest_grave_Hove.jpg/250px-G_Everest_grave_Hove.jpg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:G_Everest_grave_Hove.jpg) Everest's grave, [St Andrew's Church, Hove](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Andrew%27s_Church,_Church_Road,_Hove "St Andrew's Church, Church Road, Hove"), [East Sussex](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Sussex "East Sussex"). In 1847, Everest published An Account of the Measurement of Two Sections of the Meridional Arc of India, for which he was awarded a medal by the [Royal Astronomical Society](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Astronomical_Society "Royal Astronomical Society"). He was later elected to fellowship of the [Royal Asiatic Society](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Asiatic_Society_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland "Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland") and the [Royal Geographical Society](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Geographical_Society "Royal Geographical Society"). Everest was promoted to [colonel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel "Colonel") in 1854, made a [Commander of the Order of the Bath](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_Bath "Commander of the Order of the Bath") in February 1861,[\[18\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-18) and created a [Knight Bachelor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Bachelor "Knight Bachelor") in March 1861.[\[19\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-19) He died at his home in [Hyde Park Gardens](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyde_Park_Gardens "Hyde Park Gardens") on 1 December 1866, and was buried in [St Andrew's Church, Hove](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Andrew%27s_Church,_Church_Road,_Hove "St Andrew's Church, Church Road, Hove") near [Brighton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton "Brighton").[\[14\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-odnb-14) ## Naming of Mount Everest \[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_Everest&action=edit&section=5 "Edit section: Naming of Mount Everest")\] George Everest had no direct connection with the [mountain which bears his name](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Everest "Mount Everest"), which he never saw. He was, however, responsible for hiring [Andrew Scott Waugh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Scott_Waugh "Andrew Scott Waugh"), who made the first formal observations of the mountain, and [Radhanath Sikdar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radhanath_Sikdar "Radhanath Sikdar"), who calculated its height. Before its significance was realised, Mount Everest was originally known as Peak "B" and later as Peak XV. In March 1856, Waugh wrote to the [Royal Geographical Society](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Geographical_Society "Royal Geographical Society") to announce that the mountain was believed to be the highest in the world, and proposed that it be named "after my illustrious predecessor", as it was "without any local name that we can discover" – the "native appellation, if it has any, will not very likely be ascertained before we are allowed to penetrate into Nepal". There were in fact several native names among the [Nepalese](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepal "Nepal") and [Tibetans](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibet "Tibet"), but those areas were closed off to the British at the time and people living further to the south of the Himalayas did not have a specific name for the peak. In the decade after 1856, Waugh's proposal was widely debated by the Royal Geographical Society and similar bodies. Other scholars of India put forward native names that they believed to be correct, such as [Brian Houghton Hodgson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Houghton_Hodgson "Brian Houghton Hodgson")'s "Deva-dhunga" and [Hermann Schlagintweit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Schlagintweit "Hermann Schlagintweit")'s "Gaurisankar". Everest himself objected to his name being used, as "the native of India" could not pronounce it and it could not be easily written in [Hindi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindi "Hindi"). Nonetheless, in 1865 the society officially settled on "Mount Everest" as the name.[\[20\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-20) Everest had several siblings, including two younger brothers. George's first younger brother was Robert Everest, chaplain to the East India Company and author of A Journey Through the United States and Part of Canada.[\[21\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-21) His second (his youngest brother) was the Thomas Roupell Everest, the father of Mary Everest and a lay [homoeopath](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy "Homeopathy"). George Everest's third child, Ethel Everest, was an associate of [Emma Cons](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Cons "Emma Cons") and friend of [Lilian Baylis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilian_Baylis "Lilian Baylis").[\[22\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-22) She provided financial support for the founding of [Morley College](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morley_College "Morley College") in south London.[\[23\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-23) One of Everest's sons, Lancelot Feilding Everest, was educated at [Harrow School](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrow_School "Harrow School") and [Trinity College, Cambridge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_College,_Cambridge "Trinity College, Cambridge"), and was called to [the Bar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_\(law\) "Bar (law)") by [Lincoln's Inn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%27s_Inn "Lincoln's Inn"). He practised as a barrister in chambers in London and was also the principal author of The Law of Estoppel.[\[24\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-24) Lancelot's eldest son, Cyril Feilding Everest, enlisted in the Canadian Infantry on 17 November 1914 and was killed in action on 9 October 1916 at the [Battle of the Somme](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Somme "Battle of the Somme").[\[25\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-25)[\[26\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-26) Everest's niece, [Mary Everest](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Everest_Boole "Mary Everest Boole"), married mathematician [George Boole](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Boole "George Boole") in Gloucestershire on 11 September 1855.[\[27\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-27)[\[28\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-28) In spite of the absence of formal training, Mary was a fine mathematician in her own right, as was one of her daughters, [Alicia Boole Stott](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alicia_Boole_Stott "Alicia Boole Stott"). Alicia's son, Leonard Boole Stott, studied medicine and became a pioneer in the treatment and control of [tuberculosis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuberculosis "Tuberculosis"), work for which he was later appointed an [OBE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_British_Empire "Order of the British Empire")[\[29\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-29) Mary Boole's daughter Margaret was the mother of Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor [OM](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Merit "Order of Merit"), a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, a renowned mathematician and physicist, and a major figure in fluid dynamics and wave theory.[\[30\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-30) ## Sir George Everest house in Mussoorie, India \[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_Everest&action=edit&section=7 "Edit section: Sir George Everest house in Mussoorie, India")\] [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/George_everest_house.jpg/250px-George_everest_house.jpg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:George_everest_house.jpg) Park House from above [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Park_House_17b.jpg/250px-Park_House_17b.jpg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Park_House_17b.jpg) Sir George Everest's House and Laboratory, also known as Park House Everest owned a house in [Mussoorie, India](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mussoorie "Mussoorie") for about 11 years.[\[31\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-31) He purchased it, sight unseen, from General William Sampson Whish (1787–1853).[\[32\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-32) Built in 1832, the house is known today as Sir George Everest's House and Laboratory, or Park House. The house is in Park Estate about 6 kilometres (4 mi) west of Gandhi Chowk / Library Bazaar (the west end of Mall Road in Mussoorie). The location has panoramic views of the [Doon Valley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doon_Valley "Doon Valley") on one side and the Aglar River valley and the [Himalayan Range](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himalayan_Range "Himalayan Range") to the north. After renovation at a cost of [Rs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupee "Rupee") 23.71 [crore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crore "Crore"), the house was opened as a museum in December 2021.[\[33\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_note-33) 1. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-1) Olausson, Lena; Sangster, Catherine M. (2006). Oxford BBC guide to pronunciation: the essential handbook of the spoken word. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 124. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)") [978-0-19-280710-6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-280710-6 "Special:BookSources/978-0-19-280710-6") . 2. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-2) Claypole, Jonty (Director); Kunzru, Hari (Presenter) (2003). [Mapping Everest](https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0074phg) (TV Documentary). London: BBC Television. 3. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-:0_3-0) Dean, Riaz (2019). Mapping The Great Game: Explorers, Spies & Maps in Nineteenth-century Asia. Oxford: Casemate (UK). p. 100. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)") [978-1-61200-814-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-61200-814-1 "Special:BookSources/978-1-61200-814-1") . 4. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-4) Wallace, Colin. ["Mount Everest – The British Story"](https://web.archive.org/web/20150925110548/http://www.everest1953.co.uk/NamingMountEverest.php). Archived from [the original](http://www.everest1953.co.uk/NamingMountEverest.php) on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 2 November 2015. 5. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-BBC_mwde_5-0) Biswas, Soutik (20 October 2003). ["The man who 'discovered' Everest"](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3193576.stm). BBC News. Retrieved 9 August 2016. 6. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-6) See report in 'The Illustrated London News', 15 August 1857 7. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-7) Ram Copal Sanyal, ed. (1894), [Reminiscences and anecdotes of great men of India: both official and non-official for the last one hundred years](https://books.google.com/books?id=0BYdAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA25), p. 25 8. ^ [*a](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-r1_8-0) [b](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-r1_8-1) "George Everest was born on 4 July 1790 but the location is open to doubt. This uncertainty as to his birthplace arises because his father William Tristram Everest had an estate near Crickhowell in south [Wales](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wales "Wales") and some reference works suggest he was born there. \[...\] George's baptismal certificate certainly indicates that he was baptized in Greenwich but although the certificate also bears his date of birth it does not indicate the locality." Smith, James R. (2015). "Sir George Everest". In Martin, Geoffrey (ed.). [Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 15](https://books.google.com/books?id=w3skCwAAQBAJ). Bloomsbury Publishing. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)") [9781474226653](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781474226653 "Special:BookSources/9781474226653") . 9. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-9)* Salkeld, Audrey ([American Alpine Club](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Alpine_Club "American Alpine Club")) - [The American alpine journal](https://books.google.com/books?id=OLij19S1ftAC&pg=PA71). 32.1990. p. 71. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)") [1933056371](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1933056371 "Special:BookSources/1933056371") Retrieved 18 November 2017 10. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-10) ["Gwernvale Manor Hotel"](https://web.archive.org/web/20171201041914/http://www.parksandgardens.org/places-and-people/site/8302/history). Parks and Gardens UK. Archived from [the original](http://www.parksandgardens.org/places-and-people/site/8302/history) on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 18 November 2017. 11. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-11) Ahluwalia, H. P. S. (2001) [The Everest within](https://books.google.com/books?id=lLvPiyCNTnwC&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13). Hemkunt Press. p. 13. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)") [8170103096](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/8170103096 "Special:BookSources/8170103096") Retrieved 18 November 2017 12. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-12) [BBC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC "BBC") (7 March 2000) [Celebrating Wales on top of the world](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/669629.stm). 13. ^ [*a](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-jrs_13-0) [b](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-jrs_13-1) [c](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-jrs_13-2) [d](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-jrs_13-3) Smith, James R. (1992). ["Sir George Everest, F.R.S. (1790–1866)"](https://www.jstor.org/stable/531442). Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London. 46* (1): 89–102\. [doi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doi_\(identifier\) "Doi (identifier)"):[10\.1098/rsnr.1992.0005](https://doi.org/10.1098%2Frsnr.1992.0005). [ISSN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISSN_\(identifier\) "ISSN (identifier)") [0035-9149](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0035-9149). [JSTOR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSTOR_\(identifier\) "JSTOR (identifier)") [531442](https://www.jstor.org/stable/531442). 14. ^ [*a](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-odnb_14-0) [b](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-odnb_14-1) [c](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-odnb_14-2) [d](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-odnb_14-3) [e](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-odnb_14-4) Baigent, Elizabeth. "Everest, Sir George". [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography#Oxford_Dictionary_of_National_Biography "Dictionary of National Biography")* (online ed.). Oxford University Press. [doi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doi_\(identifier\) "Doi (identifier)"):[10\.1093/ref:odnb/9003](https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fref%3Aodnb%2F9003). (Subscription, [Wikipedia Library](https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/88/) access or [UK public library membership](https://www.oxforddnb.com/help/subscribe#public) required.) 15. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-Gila_Valley_15-0) ["Freemasons and the Royal Society"](http://gilavalleylodge9.wordpress.com/2010/06/27/freemasons-and-the-royal-society/). Gila Valley Lodge No 9. 28 June 2010. Retrieved 25 February 2018. 16. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-16) Mary Everest Boole (1901). [Indian Thought and Western Science in the Nineteenth Century](http://archive.org/details/indianthoughtwes00bool). Library Genesis. The Ceylon National Review. 17. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-17) ["St George, Hanover Square 1846–1847"](https://www.ancestryinstitution.com/search/collections/61867/records/90884013). Ancestry.com. 18. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-18) ["No. 7097"](https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/7097/page/289). [The Edinburgh Gazette](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Edinburgh_Gazette "The Edinburgh Gazette"). 1 March 1861. p. 289. 19. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-19) ["No. 22493"](https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/22493/page/1241). [The London Gazette](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_London_Gazette "The London Gazette"). 19 March 1861. p. 1241. 20. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-20) [The Naming of Mount Everest](https://www.montana.edu/everest/facts/naming.html). Montana State University website. Accessed 11 January 2023. 21. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-21) Everest, Robert. A Journey Through the United States and Part of Canada. John Chapman: King William Street, Strand, London, 1855. 22. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-22) Schafer, Elizabeth (2006) [Lilian Baylis: A Biography](https://books.google.com/books?id=U4Y6Jyc0vSAC&pg=PA76). Univ of Hertfordshire Press. p. 76. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)") [9781902806648](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781902806648 "Special:BookSources/9781902806648") 23. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-23) Richards, Denis (2013) [Offspring of the Vic: A History of Morley College](https://books.google.com/books?id=d6X0JhHB8-8C&pg=PT60). Routledge. p. 60. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)") [9781135030858](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781135030858 "Special:BookSources/9781135030858") 24. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-24) Everest, Lancelot Feilding. The Law of Estoppel. Stevens and Sons: 119, Chancery Lane, London, 1881. 25. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-25) ["Canadian Great War Project"](https://web.archive.org/web/20201127045004/http://canadiangreatwarproject.com/searches/soldierDetailPrint.asp?ID=60846). Archived from [the original](http://canadiangreatwarproject.com/searches/soldierDetailPrint.asp?ID=60846) on 27 November 2020. Retrieved 1 July 2016. 26. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-26) ["Every Man Remembered – Soldier Profile Private Cyril Fielding Everest"](https://web.archive.org/web/20140730101710/http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/1567689/). Archived from [the original](http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/1567689) on 30 July 2014. 27. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-27) Creese, Mary (2004). "Boole, Mary". [ODNB](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ODNB "ODNB"). [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography#Oxford_Dictionary_of_National_Biography "Dictionary of National Biography") (online ed.). Oxford University Press. [doi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doi_\(identifier\) "Doi (identifier)"):[10\.1093/ref:odnb/38817](https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fref%3Aodnb%2F38817). (Subscription, [Wikipedia Library](https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/88/) access or [UK public library membership](https://www.oxforddnb.com/help/subscribe#public) required.) 28. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-28) ["Gloucestershire, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1938"](https://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=5156). search.ancestry.co.uk. Retrieved 28 January 2016. 29. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-29) Creese, Mary R. S. (1998). Ladies in the Laboratory? American and British Women in Science, 1800–1900: A Survey of their Contributions to Research. The Scarecrow Press, Inc. p. 199. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)") [9780810832879](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780810832879 "Special:BookSources/9780810832879") . 30. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-30) Batchelor, George (1994). The Life and Legacy of G.I. Taylor. Cambridge University Press. p. 25. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)") [0521461219](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0521461219 "Special:BookSources/0521461219") . 31. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-31) Nigam, Devesh (2002). Tourism, environment, and development of Garhwal Himalaya (1. ed.). New Delhi, India: Mittal Publications. p. 54. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)") [81-7099-870-0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/81-7099-870-0 "Special:BookSources/81-7099-870-0") . 32. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-32) Phillimore, Reginald (July 1955). "Stokes' School, Mussoorie". The Indian Archives. IX (2). New Delhi: [National Archives of India](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Archives_of_India "National Archives of India") (published December 1955): 101. 33. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest#cite_ref-33) Jain, Anmol (8 December 2021). ["Renovated Sir George Everest House in Mussoorie opens to public"](https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/dehradun/renovated-sir-george-everest-house-in-mussoorie-opens-to-public/articleshow/88151580.cms). [The Times of India](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Times_of_India "The Times of India"). - John Keay. 2000. The Great Arc. London: HarperCollins. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)") [0-00-257062-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-00-257062-9 "Special:BookSources/0-00-257062-9") . - J. R. Smith. 1999. Everest: The Man and the Mountain. Caithness: Whittles Publishing. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)") [1-870325-72-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-870325-72-9 "Special:BookSources/1-870325-72-9") . - Dean, Riaz (2019). Mapping the Great Game: Explorers, Spies and Maps in 19th-Century Asia. Oxford, UK: Casemate. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)") [978-1-61200-815-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-61200-815-8 "Special:BookSources/978-1-61200-815-8") . [OCLC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCLC_\(identifier\) "OCLC (identifier)") [1127908291](https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/1127908291). - [Chisholm, Hugh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Chisholm "Hugh Chisholm"), ed. (1911). ["Everest, Sir George"](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Everest,_Sir_George) . [Encyclopædia Britannica](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition "Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition") (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. - <https://www.explortheinfinity.com/george-everests-house/> [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20200206165921/https://www.explortheinfinity.com/george-everests-house/) 6 February 2020 at the [Wayback Machine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine "Wayback Machine") - [George Everest Travel Guide, History](https://www.euttaranchal.com/tourism/sir-george-everest-house.php) - [Photographs of Sir George Everest's house and laboratory, in Mussoorie, India](https://www.flickr.com/photos/dynastyphotoinc/sets/72157623165585006/) - [The Guardian news on Mount Everest name](https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/from-the-archive-blog/2011/jul/21/mount-everest-name-1856) - [George Everest](http://www.nndb.com/people/583/000195995/) at nndb.com - <https://www.historychannel.com.au/this-day-in-history/150th-anniversary-death-sir-george-everest/> [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20171201082736/https://www.historychannel.com.au/this-day-in-history/150th-anniversary-death-sir-george-everest/) 1 December 2017 at the [Wayback Machine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine "Wayback Machine") - <http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/530/gwernvale.html> - <http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=4060>
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