A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Everest, Walter Grosett
EVEREST. (Lieut., 1842. f-p., 12; h-p., 9.)
Walter Grosett Everest died, 9 Dec. 1846, at South Devon Place, Plymouth, aged 33. He was son of G. Everest, Esq., late of the Admiralty, Somerset House.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 March, 1826, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Genoa 74, Capt. Walter Bathurst, and was present in that ship, as Aide-de-camp to his Captain, at the battle of Navarin, 20 Oct. 1827. After an attachment of more than four years to the Ocean 98, Capt. Patrick Campbell, and Talbot 28, Capt. Rich. Dickinson, on the Mediterranean and Cape of Good Hope stations, he passed his examination 14 March, 1832. From Sept. in the latter year, until June, 1839 (with the exception of 10 months in 1833-4, during which he served off Lisbon in the Donegal 78, Capt. Arthur Fanshawe), Mr. Everest appears to have remained unemployed. He was then successively employed, for a period of 16 months, in the Britannia and Impregnable, flag-ships at Portsmouth and Plymouth of Sir Philip Chas. Durham and Sir Graham Moore. While afterwards serving with the last-mentioned officer in the Caledonia 120, he was awarded a commission, dated 24 March, 1842. On 27 April following he again joined the Caledonia, under Sir David Milne. He went on half-pay 13 Nov. 1843; and in the end died from the effects of disease contracted in the Talbot, off the Mauritius, which for 10 years had rendered his life one of great suffering.