biography
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Everest, Sir George
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| male
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| lived:
| (1790–1866)
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| biography:
| Military engineer, born in Gwernvale, Powys, E Wales, UK. He worked on the trigonometrical survey of India (1818–43), being appointed surveyor general in 1830. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1827, and knighted in 1861. Mt Everest was renamed in his honour in 1865. |
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