Sir George Everest, was a British surveyor and geographer who served as Surveyor General of India from 1830 to 1843.
George Everest
Everest's grave, St Andrew's Church, Church Road, Hove.
Sir George Everest's House and Laboratory, also known as Park House.
Park House as seen through weathered Tibetan Buddhist prayer flags, placed by Mussoorie's longtime Tibetan community, from a vantage point at an angle above.
Lieutenant-Colonel William Lambton was a British soldier, surveyor, and geographer who began a triangulation survey in 1800-1802 that was later called the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India. His initial survey was to measure the length of a degree of an arc of the meridian so as to establish the shape of the Earth and support a larger scale trigonometrical survey across the width of the peninsula of India between Madras and Mangalore. After triangulating across the peninsula, he continued surveys northwards for more than twenty years. He died during the course of the surveys in central India and is buried at Hinganghat in Wardha district of Maharashtra. He was succeeded by his assistant George Everest.
Lambton in 1822, oil painting by William Havell in the Royal Asiatic Society
Great Theodolite by Jesse Ramsden, similar to the one made by William Cary that was used by Lambton in the early surveys.
Lambton's area of work
The first triangulations across the peninsula