What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: Peter Mark Roget 1779-1869 Physician and compiler of the Thesaurus Co-founder of Manchester's Medical School Recorded plaque organisation: University of Manchester.
Dr Peter Mark Roget was a physician and scholar best known for compiling Roget's Thesaurus, first published in 1852; he also contributed to early medical education by co-founding Manchester's Medical School.
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