Everest , Sir George (1790-1866) - AIM25

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GB 0117 MS/234

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Everest , Sir George (1790-1866)

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[c 1817-1843] (Creación)

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1 volume

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Everest , Sir , George , 1790-1866 , Knight , military engineer

Historia biográfica

Born, 1790; educated at the Royal Military College, Marlow, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, 1805; joined the East India Company as a cadet, 1806; sailed for India as second lieutenant in the Bengal artillery, 1806; surveyed Java at the request of the lieutenant-governor, Stamford Raffles, 1814-1816; worked on improving the navigation of the rivers connecting the Ganges and the Hooghly; chief assistant on the great trigonometrical survey of India, 1818-1820; convalescence, 1820-1821; returned to the survey, 1821; superintendent of the great trigonometrical survey, 1823-1842; Surveyor-General of India, 1830-1843; returned to England, 1843; died, 1866.

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Royal Society

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GB 0117 MS/234 [c 1817-1843] Sub-fonds 1 volume Everest , Sir , George , 1790-1866 , Knight , military engineer

Born, 1790; educated at the Royal Military College, Marlow, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, 1805; joined the East India Company as a cadet, 1806; sailed for India as second lieutenant in the Bengal artillery, 1806; surveyed Java at the request of the lieutenant-governor, Stamford Raffles, 1814-1816; worked on improving the navigation of the rivers connecting the Ganges and the Hooghly; chief assistant on the great trigonometrical survey of India, 1818-1820; convalescence, 1820-1821; returned to the survey, 1821; superintendent of the great trigonometrical survey, 1823-1842; Surveyor-General of India, 1830-1843; returned to England, 1843; died, 1866.

Tables prepared by Sir George Everest for the use of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India.

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Paper, bound, size 10.5 x 8 inches.

Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

Feb 2009. Everest , Sir , George , 1790-1866 , Knight , military engineer Surveying Mathematics Trigonometry India South Asia

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Tables prepared by Sir George Everest for the use of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India.

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