Andrew Scott Waugh
British Army officer and Surveyor General of India / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Major General Sir Andrew Scott Waugh (3 February 1810 ā 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.