Sir george everest biography of william hill
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AN ENQUIRY INTO THE REAL NAME OF MT. EVEREST
WILLIAM McKAY AITKEN*
Following on from 'The Name of the World's Highest Peak' by Michael Ward (HJ 53, p. 27) I set out to enquire into the mountain's real name by literally walking in the footsteps of Everest and Waugh to examine their tracks.
There is nothing like an invigorating walk in fresh mountain air to quicken the mind and stimulate enquiry. In the year that celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the first ascent of Mt. Everest I wish to take a layman's look at the stray evidence from several sources that points to a suppression of the real name of this mountain. Appropriately my walk will take in Col. Sir George Everest's estate called 'The Park' at Hathi Paon some 5 km west of Mussoorie where the great surveyor lived from 1833 to 1843. From there I will continue for another 5 km to Benog Tibba walking past 'Clouds End', the last bungalow on the high oak ridge before it drops steeply to the river Yamuna.
A north-leading saddle connects to Benog (as the British called this 7432 ft-2477 m long peak) that marks the last fix of the Great Trigonometrical Survey, begun by Col. William Lambton and completed by Everest. Near the top Sir George's handpicked successor Gen. Sir Andrew Waugh had built a tiny observatory and twenty
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George Everest
British surveyor and geographer (1790–1866)
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 receiving a military education in Marlow, 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
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The first life of Martyr Everest
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