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Andrew Scott Waugh

1810 - 1878

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Major General Sir Andrew Scott Waugh (3 February 1810 – 21 February 1878) was a British army officer and Surveyor General of India who worked in the Great Trigonometrical Survey. He served under Sir George Everest and succeeded him in 1843. Waugh established a gridiron system of traverses for covering northern India. Waugh is credited with naming the peak of Mount Everest. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Andrew Scott Waugh is the 1,612th most popular military personnel (up from 1,874th in 2019), the 3,205th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,221st in 2019) and the 76th most popular British Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Andrew Scott Waugh ranks 1,612 out of 2,058. Before him are Stanley Maude, Pedro Teixeira, Richmond K. Turner, Aliagha Shikhlinski, Edward Braddock, and Mutsuhiro Watanabe. After him are Georgi Todorov, Sidney Smith, Henry Halleck, Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset, Gerhard von Schwerin, and Erich Buschenhagen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1810, Andrew Scott Waugh ranks 74. Before him are Eugène Belgrand, Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal, Charles Forbes René de Montalembert, Lorenzo Batlle y Grau, Grigory Gagarin, and Pierre Bosquet. After him are Miklós Barabás, L. L. Langstroth, Johan August Wahlberg, Victor Motschulsky, Baron Ignaz von Plener, and Jules Malou. Among people deceased in 1878, Andrew Scott Waugh ranks 48. Before him are Temistocle Solera, Cirilo Antonio Rivarola, George Cruikshank, Eugène Belgrand, Roberto de Visiani, and Joaquín Mosquera. After him are Dimitrios Voulgaris, Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, Kikuchi Yōsai, Pyotr Vyazemsky, Fabre Geffrard, and Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Andrew Scott Waugh ranks 3,206 out of 8,785. Before him are William Withering (1741), Edward Braddock (1695), Austin Osman Spare (1886), Dominic West (1969), Stanley Baker (1928), and Harry Styles (1994). After him are Henry Travers (1874), Ronald Neame (1911), Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning (1812), Philip Catherine (1942), Eric Frank Russell (1905), and Simon McBurney (1957).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Andrew Scott Waugh ranks 76. Before him are Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside (1880), Max Horton (1883), Trafford Leigh-Mallory (1892), Ronald Speirs (1920), Douglas Bader (1910), and Edward Braddock (1695). After him are Sidney Smith (1764), Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset (1436), James Somerville (1882), Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood (1724), William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim (1891), and Flora Sandes (1876).

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