Andrew Scott Waugh

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Major-General Sir Andrew Scott Waugh (3 February 1810 – 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.

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