Thomas Roupell Everest

Thomas Roupell Everest (1801 – 1855) was a lay homeopath, a patient of Samuel Hahnemann (Peter Morrell, Hahnemann & Homeopathy, (B. Jain Publishers, 2004) Page 92),  and one of the founders of homeopathy in Britain.

His brother George Everest was also a patient of Samuel Hahnemann (Peter Morrell, Hahnemann & Homeopathy, (B. Jain Publishers, 2004) Page 92), and his daughter Mary Elizabeth Everest Boole was brought up in Paris and she knew Samuel Hahnemann, and she also studied mathematics with the French pioneers of the age, and also with the famous English mathematicians of the age. Mary Elizabeth Everest Boole was married to the famous mathematician George Boole.

Thomas Roupell Everest was the great grandfather of Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, and the grandfather of Margaret Boole, Lucy Everest Boole, Alicia Boole Stott, and Ethel Lilian Boole Voynich.

Thomas Roupell Everest was a friend of James John Garth Wilkinson, and he was also a friend of homeopath Moncure Daniel Conway, who linked together Erasmus Alvey Darwin, Charles Dickens, Robert Browning, Charles Lyell, and Thomas Carlyle, Charles Babbage, Erasmus Alvey Darwin’s brother Charles Darwin, Harriet Martineau, George Everest, Robert Everest (?brother of George and Thomas Everest – a geographer who lived in India). Publisher John Chapman and Thomas Henry Huxley were also part of this group . . . Continued