EVEREST, SIR GEORGE (179o-1866), British surveyor and geographer, was born at Greenwich, London, on July 4, 179o, and educated at Marlow. He then went to Woolwich. He went to India as a cadet in 1806, and took part in the reconnais sance of Java (1814-16). From then to his retirement in 1843 he was employed on surveys in India. For the rest of his life he lived in England, was knighted in 1861, and died at Paddington on Dec. 1, i866. His geodetical work ranks among the finest of its kind ; his measurement of the meridional arc of India, I I ° in length, is accounted as unrivalled in the records of the science. In great part the Indian survey is what he made it. Mount Everest is named after him.