Roget, PETER MARK

Roget, PETER MARK, was born in London in 1779, the only son of a Genevan who had settled as minister of a French church in London and married the sister of Sir Samuel Romilly. He was educated at Edinburgh, became physician to the Manchester Infirmary in 1804, and in 1808 settled in London, where he became physician to the Northern Dispensary; F.R.S. (1815), and afterwards for nearly twenty years its secretary; Fullerian professor of Physiology at the Royal Institution; and an original member of senate of the University of London, surviving till September 17, 1869. He wrote one of the 'Bridgewater Treatises,' On Animal and Vegetable Physiology considered with Reference to Natural Theology (1834), and the more famous Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases (1852), passed through 28 editions in his lifetime.