 His grandfather John Everest, the son of a butcher, was the first in the family to enter the legal profession.The Everest family in Greenwich can be traced at least as far back as the late 1600s, when Tristram Everest – John's great-grandfather – was a butcher in Church Street.Everest was educated at the [Royal Military College (Cadet Branch) in Marlow, Buckinghamshire], before joining the East India Company as a cadet in 1806.