George Everest ( 1790 - 1866 )

Birth: Gwernvale, Brecknockshire, Wales (04 July 1790) Death: 10 Westbourne Street, Hyde Park Gardens, London (01 December 1866) Profession: Surveyor Career: Military engineer and geodesist, he went to India in 1823 to take on a mammoth task - to complete the Great Trigonometrical Survey of the sub-continent which William Lambton had begun in 1806.