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Date of birth: 04/07/1790 · Date of death: 01/12/1866
On 4 July 1790, George Everest, a British geographer and cartographer who served as Surveyor-General of India from 1830 to 1843, was born in Crickhowell (in the Brecon Beacons, Wales). The world’s highest peak was renamed in his honour.