Author
photo credits: Thomas Pettigrew - PD US
Peter Mark Roget
Physician, philologist
1779
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1869
country of citizenship:
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
educated at:
University of Edinburgh
occupation:
lexicographer, physician, physicist
award received:
Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Geological Society
Peter Mark Roget (UK: US: ; 18 January 1779 – 12 September 1869) was a British physician, natural theologian and lexicographer. He is best known for publishing, in 1852, the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, a classified collection of related words.
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