Editing George Everest (section)

===Later life===
In London on 11 November 1846 Everest married Emma Wing, aged 23, of [[Hampstead|Hampstead, London]].<ref>{{cite web |title=St George, Hanover Square 1846-1847 |url=https://www-ancestryinstitution-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/search/collections/61867/records/90884013 |publisher=Ancestry.com |language=en}}</ref> They had six children.<ref name=jrs/>

In 1847, Everest published ''An Account of the Measurement of Two Sections of the Meridional Arc of India'', for which he was awarded a medal by the [[Royal Astronomical Society]]. He was later elected to fellowship of the [[Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland|Royal Asiatic Society]] and the [[Royal Geographical Society]]. Everest was promoted to [[colonel]] in 1854, made a [[Commander of the Order of the Bath]] in February 1861,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=7097|page=289|city=e|date=1 March 1861}}</ref> and created a [[Knight Bachelor]] in March 1861.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22493|page=1241|date=19 March 1861}}</ref> He died at his home in [[Hyde Park Gardens]] on 1 December 1866, and was buried in [[St Andrew's Church, Church Road, Hove|St Andrew's Church, Hove]] near [[Brighton]].<ref name=odnb/>