Peter Mark Roget, English physician, theologian, and lexicographer (born 1779)

Peter Mark Roget

British physician, philologist (1779–1869)

Peter Mark Roget was a British physician, natural theologian, lexicographer, and founding secretary of The Portico Library. He is best known for publishing, in 1852, the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, a classified collection of related words (thesaurus). In 1824, he…