Awards & Winners

Andrew Scott Waugh

Major General Sir Andrew Scott Waugh was a British army officer and surveyor now remembered as the man who named the highest mountain in the world after Sir George Everest, his predecessor in the post of Surveyor-General of India.

Awards by Andrew Scott Waugh

Check all the awards nominated and won by Andrew Scott Waugh.

1857


Patron's Gold Medal
(For geodetical operations, as remarkable for their extent as for their accuracy, whereby [India] has been covered by triangulation)