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Peter Mark Roget

From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008

Peter Mark Roget , 1779-1869, English physician and lexicographer. For 50 years while he practiced medicine and was secretary of the Royal Society (1827-49), Roget prepared his Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases (1852). In successive editions supervised by him, his son, his grandson, and others, it has remained a standard reference book.

Bibliography: See biography by D. L. Emblen (1970).

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