IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0117 MS/234
Held at: Royal Society
Title: Everest , Sir George (1790-1866)
Date(s): [c 1817-1843]
Level of description: sub-fonds
Extent: 1 volume
Name of creator(s): Everest | Sir | George | 1790-1866 | Knight | military engineer
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Administrative/Biographical history:
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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Tables prepared by Sir George Everest for the use of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India.
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Language/scripts of material: English
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Open.
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No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.
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Paper, bound, size 10.5 x 8 inches.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Archivist's note: Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2009.