| LC control no. | no2018056850 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Waugh, Andrew Scott, Sir, 1810-1878 |
| Variant(s) | Waugh, A. S. (Andrew Scott), Sir, 1810-1878 |
| Associated country | Great Britain India |
| Birth date | 1810-02-03 |
| Death date | 1878-02-21 |
| Field of activity | Surveying Triangulation |
| Affiliation | India. Great Trigonometrical Survey Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers |
| Profession or occupation | Surveyors |
| Found in | Jamoo, Kashmir and adjacent districts, 1861: map recto (Surveyed between the years 1856 & 1860 under the superintendence of Lieut. Colonel Sir Andrew Scott Waugh) Map of Kashmir with part of adjacent mountains, 1859: (Surveyed on the basis of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India under the instructions of Lieut. Colonel A. S. Waugh) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online, 27April 2018 (Waugh, Sir Andrew Scott (1810-1878), army officer and surveyor, born in India on 3 February 1810 ... commissioned lieutenant in the Bengal Engineers on 13 December 1827. After training at Chatham he went to India, arriving there on 25 May 1829 ... on 17 July 1832 appointed to the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India under the immediate direction of George Everest, the surveyor-general ... At the end of 1843 Everest retired, recommending that Waugh succeed him as surveyor-general. Although only a subaltern of Royal Engineers, and although he had only eleven years' experience of surveying, Waugh was accordingly appointed from 16 December 1843 ... He died on 21 February 1878) |
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