See also: Everest (homonymy)

Sir George Everest (July 4th 1790 - February 1st 1866) is a geographer British, Surveyor-General off India of 1830 with 1843.

It is mainly responsible for the triangulation of the Indies, started however by William Lambton in 1806, a task which lasted several decades. The Everest was studied, in 1852, under its successor Andrew Waugh and at this point in time after calculation height of its top, it was established like more the high mountain of the world. It is famous, in 1865, the honor of Sir George Everest.

Everest is born with the manor from Gwernvale close to Crickhowell, in the county of Powys, with the Wales. He is pupil with the military academy of Woolwich, showing there gifts for the Mathématiques. In 1806, it goes to the Indies like junior by artillery of the Bengal. It is then selected by Stamford Raffles to take part in the recognition of Java of 1814 with 1816.

In 1818, it is named as assistant of colonel Lambton, who had begun, in 1806, the triangulation of the sub-continent. In 1823, with died of the colonel, it replaces it at the position of director of the geodetic Service of the Indies, and in 1830 it is named surveyor-general off India . Everest takes its retirement in 1843 and turns over then in England, where it becomes fellow of the Royal Society .

Annobli in 1861, it is selected the following year as vice-president of the Royal Geographical Society. He dies in Greenwich in 1866 and is buried in the church St Andrews, in Hove close to Brighton.

George Everest is the uncle of the mathematician Mary Everest Boole, wife of the mathematician George Boole and mother of the auteure Ethel Lilian Voynich.