Tag Archives: Peter Mark Roget

Roget and his Thesaurus

September 29, 2020

JMS Pearce East Yorks, UK   Fig 1. Peter Mark Roget (1779-1869). William. Drummond, after Eden Upton Eddis. c.1830s. Credit National Portrait Gallery  There was much more to Peter Mark Roget (1779–1869)(Fig 1) than his indispensable Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases (Fig 2).1 But little is remembered of his illustrious career in medicine and […]

Peter Mark Roget, MD, FRS of the Thesaurus

January 31, 2017

Peter Mark Roget, 1834 Print from Medical Portrait Gallery by Thomas Pettigrew His obituary as it appeared in the British Medical Journal on Sept. 25, 1869   Dr. Peter Mark Roget died on September 10th, at Malvern, in the 91st year of his age. He was the son of the Rev. John Roget, a descendant […]