Peter Mark Roget
1779–1869
Physician and philologist. First Fullerian Professor of physiology at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, 1834–7. Secretary of the Royal Society of London, 1827–48. Compiler of the Thesaurus of English words and phrases (1852). FRS 1815.
Source
ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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