MILITARY PERSONNEL

Andrew Scott Waugh

1810 - 1878

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andrew Scott Waugh has received more than 110,281 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Andrew Scott Waugh is the 1,873rd most popular military personnel (down from 1,416th in 2019), the 4,221st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 461st in 2019) and the 108th most popular British Military Personnel.

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  • 110k

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  • 45.91

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Andrew Scott Waugh ranks 1,873 out of 2,058. Before him are Oskar Gripenberg, Theodore Van Kirk, Francis Pegahmagabow, John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent, Lyman Lemnitzer, and Don Carlos Buell. After him are Stanley A. McChrystal, Mariya Smirnova, Alexander Patch, William T. Anderson, Eugene Bullard, and Oliver Leese.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1810, Andrew Scott Waugh ranks 91. Before him are Carl Mayet, Nicolae Golescu, Ernestine Rose, Robert Mallet, Jeremiah S. Black, and Alphonso Taft. After him are Julián Castro, Johann Ludwig Krapf, Pierre Bosquet, Victor Motschulsky, Tomás Gomensoro Albín, and Nísia Floresta. Among people deceased in 1878, Andrew Scott Waugh ranks 63. Before him are Jaroslav Čermák, Thomas Thomson, William Cullen Bryant, Nicolae Golescu, Aleardo Aleardi, and George Back. After him are Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Francisco Linares Alcántara, José Amador de los Ríos, George Henry Lewes, William Stokes, and José María Medina.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Andrew Scott Waugh ranks 4,221 out of 8,785. Before him are Thomas Campbell Eyton (1809), Antonia Fraser (1932), Richard Palmer-James (1947), Annie S. D. Maunder (1868), Jacqueline Wilson (1945), and Amira Casar (1971). After him are John Beazley (1885), Maxi Jazz (1957), Steve Strange (1959), William of Newburgh (1130), Ramsey Campbell (1946), and Brendan Perry (1959).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Andrew Scott Waugh ranks 108. Before him are Reginald Wingate (1861), Thomas Picton (1758), John André (1750), Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer (1857), Albert Ball (1896), and John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent (1735). After him are Oliver Leese (1894), John Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey (1885), John Dill (1881), John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton (1896), Guy Simonds (1903), and Arnold Jackson (1891).

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