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guns, at tlie passage of the Dardanelles. He attained the rank of Pay- 

 master in 1811, and after service in the Erne was employed as Secretary 

 in 1823 and 1824 to the Hon. Alexander Cochrane at Plymouth, from 

 1824 to 1827 to Lord de Saumarez at the same port, and from 1828 

 to 1834 to Sir Pulteney Malcolm in the Mediterranean during the 

 pacification of Greece and the expulsion of the Egyptians from the 

 Morea, where he acted as British Commissioner at the headquarters of 

 Ibraham Pasha, in concert with the Commissioners of France and Russia, 

 for the purpose of rescuing from slavery about 2000 Greek women and 

 children found in the Egyptian camp, on which service he received an 

 injury that subjected him to severe suffering for the rest of his life. He 

 was also with the same gallant commander in the North Sea during the de- 

 monstration made on the Dutch coast in 1832 and 1833 at the siege of 

 Antwerp. From 1836 to 1839 he was with Sir Philip Durham, as secre- 

 tary at Portsmouth, and from 1839 to 1842 with Sir Graham Moore at 

 Plymouth. He was placed on the half-pay of a secretary in 1843, and re- 

 ceived a letter of thanks from the Admiralty for his important special services 

 as Secretary to the Commission consisting of Sir P. Malcolm, Sir C. Adams, 

 and Sir T. M. Hardy, which framed the laborious production, 'The Code of 

 Naval Regulations and in 1865 he was appointed Paymaster-in-Chief, and 

 received the Greenwich pension for his past service. 



Mr. Edye was elected a Fellow of the Royal Societ}'^ in January 1841. 

 He died at his residence. Stoke, Devonport, November 12, 1866, leaving a 

 widow and one son, a midshipman in the Navy. 



Sir George Everest was born at Gwernvale (Brecon), the seat of his 

 father, Mr. Tristram Everest, on the 4th of July 1/90. In his early 

 studies at Woolwich he made such progress that he was found qualified 

 for a commission before the age prescribed by the regulations, and 

 vv^as noticed by the Professor of Mathematics, Dr. Hutton, as one who 

 would distinguish himself. In 1806 the young cadet sailed for India, 

 where he entered the Bengal Engineers, and after seven years' service, was 

 sent to join a detachment in Java. There Lieut. Everest was selected by 

 Sir Stamford Raffles, then Governor, to make a survey of the Island, in 

 which laborious task he spent two years, and afterwards returned to Ben- 

 gal. He was next employed in engineering works (improving the navi- 

 gation of the outlets of the Ganges), and though appointed Chief Assistant 

 on the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India in 1817, he remained for 

 some months in Hindoostan to complete the establishment of a line of 

 telegraphic posts from Calcutta to Benares. 



In 1818 Captain Everest joined the party under Lieut. -Col. Lambton, 

 Superintendent of the Survey at the headquarters, Hydrabad. Well quali- 

 fied for this appointment by education and habit, he entered with great 

 spirit on the duties by which his name has become noteworthy in the 

 annals of Geodesy. Before that survey was undertaken the topography of 



