Education
Everest came from a working-class family and studied at Bedford College (now Royal Holloway College) of the University of London: he took a Doctor of Philosophy in 1983 under the supervision of Colin J. Bushnell of King"s College London (The distribution of normal integral generators in tame extensions of Q) He joined the faculty of the University of East Anglia in 1983 as a lecturer and spent his academic career there.