Background
Everett was born on Norfolk Island to British parents: George, the doctor at the penal colony, from Wiltshire, and Anna-Maria, from Jersey.
Everett was born on Norfolk Island to British parents: George, the doctor at the penal colony, from Wiltshire, and Anna-Maria, from Jersey.
They left in 1851 to return to England via Tasmania, so he was educated in England.
In 1869 he went to Sarawak in north-western Borneo in order to collect natural history specimens. After two years there he entered the service of the Kingdom of Sarawak, as a Resident in the Baram district, under the White Rajahs. In 1878 and 1879 he was engaged by the Royal Society and British Association to explore "the Caves of Borneo" in search of the remains of ancient manitoba
The explorations were made around Bau and Niah but were unsuccessful in their primary aim (although the orangutan jaw which later formed part of Piltdown Manitoba may well have been one result).
In 1885 he was appointed the Rajah’s Consul to the Court of the Sultan of Brunei. He later served in North Borneo in the administration of the British North Borneo Company.
He died in London. Everett collected for the Marquess of Tweedale and Walter Rothschild, as well as others
He is best known for the collections he made of birds and mammals in Borneo and the Philippines. He is commemorated in the names of several animals, including:
Birds
Bornean spiderhunter (Arachnothera everetti)
Brown-backed flowerpecker (Dicaeum everetti)
Chestnut-crested yuhina (Staphida everetti)
Everett"s thrush (Zoothera everetti)
Everett"s white-eye (Zosterops everetti)
Russet-capped tesia (Tesia everetti)
Sumba buttonquail (Turnix everetti)
Sumba hornbill (Rhyticeros everetti)
White-tipped monarch (Monarcha everetti)
Yellowish bulbul (Ixos everetti)
Mammals
Bornean ferret-badger (Melogale everetti)
Bornean mountain ground squirrel (Dremomys everetti)
Mindanao treeshrew (Urogale everetti)
Philippine forest rat (Rattus everetti)
Snakes
Everett"s reedsnake (Calamaria everetti)
Jewelled kukri snake (Oligodon everetti)
Sabah striped coralsnake (Calliophis intestinalis everetti)
Frogs
Everett"s treefrog (Litoria everetti)
Fish
Clown barb (Puntius everetti).
In 1891, Everett became a member of the British Ornithologists" Union.
