Editing George Everest (section)

==Family==
Everest had several siblings, including two younger brothers. George's first younger brother was Robert Everest, chaplain to the East India Company and author of ''A Journey Through the United States and Part of Canada''.<ref>{{Cite book|title = A Journey Through the United States and Part of Canada|last = Everest|first = Robert|publisher = John Chapman: King William Street, Strand, London, 1855.}}</ref> His second (his youngest brother) was the Thomas Roupell Everest, the father of Mary Everest and a lay [[homeopathy|homoeopath]]. George Everest's third child, Ethel Everest, was an associate of [[Emma Cons]] and friend of [[Lilian Baylis]].<ref>Schafer, Elizabeth (2006) [https://books.google.com/books?id=U4Y6Jyc0vSAC&pg=PA76 ''Lilian Baylis: A Biography'']. Univ of Hertfordshire Press. p. 76. {{ISBN|9781902806648}}</ref> She provided financial support for the founding of [[Morley College]] in south London.<ref>Richards, Denis (2013) [https://books.google.com/books?id=d6X0JhHB8-8C&pg=PT60 ''Offspring of the Vic: A History of Morley College'']. Routledge. p. 60. {{ISBN|9781135030858}}</ref>

One of Everest's sons, Lancelot Feilding Everest, was educated at [[Harrow School]] and [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], and was called to [[Bar (law)|the Bar]] by [[Lincoln's Inn]]. He practised as a barrister in chambers in London and was also the principal author of ''The Law of Estoppel''.<ref>{{Cite book|title = The Law of Estoppel|last = Everest|first = Lancelot Feilding|publisher = Stevens and Sons: 119, Chancery Lane, London, 1881}}</ref> Lancelot's eldest son, Cyril Feilding Everest, enlisted in the Canadian Infantry on 17 November 1914 and was killed in action on 9 October 1916 at the [[Battle of the Somme]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://canadiangreatwarproject.com/searches/soldierDetailPrint.asp?ID=60846|title=Canadian Great War Project|access-date=1 July 2016|archive-date=27 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201127045004/http://canadiangreatwarproject.com/searches/soldierDetailPrint.asp?ID=60846|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/1567689 |title=Every Man Remembered – Soldier Profile Private Cyril Fielding Everest |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140730101710/http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/1567689/ |archive-date=30 July 2014 }}</ref>

Everest's niece, [[Mary Everest Boole|Mary Everest]], married mathematician [[George Boole]] in Gloucestershire on 11 September 1855.<ref>{{cite ODNB|last1=Creese|first1=Mary|title=[[ODNB]]|date=2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/38817|chapter=Boole, Mary}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title = Gloucestershire, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1938|url = http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=5156|website = search.ancestry.co.uk|access-date = 28 January 2016}}</ref> In spite of the absence of formal training, Mary was a fine mathematician in her own right, as was one of her daughters, [[Alicia Boole Stott]]. Alicia's son, Leonard Boole Stott, studied medicine and became a pioneer in the treatment and control of [[tuberculosis]], work for which he was later appointed an [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]]<ref>{{Cite book|title = Ladies in the Laboratory? American and British Women in Science, 1800–1900: A Survey of their Contributions to Research|last = Creese|first = Mary R. S.|publisher = The Scarecrow Press, Inc.|year= 1998|page =199|isbn=9780810832879}}</ref> Mary Boole's daughter Margaret was the mother of Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor [[Order of Merit|OM]], a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, a renowned mathematician and physicist, and a major figure in fluid dynamics and wave theory.<ref>{{Cite book|title = The Life and Legacy of G.I. Taylor|last = Batchelor|first = George|publisher = Cambridge University Press|year= 1994|page=25|isbn=0521461219}}</ref>