Editing Peter Mark Roget (section)

==Early life==
[[File:Peter Mark Roget plaque, Edinburgh University.jpg|thumb|upright|left|Roget plaque, [[George Square, Edinburgh]]]]
Peter Mark Roget was born in [[Broadwick Street|Broad Street]], [[Soho]], London, the son of Jean (John) Roget (1751–1783), a [[Geneva]]n cleric born to French parents, and Catherine "Kitty" Romilly, the sister of British politician, abolitionist, and legal reformer Sir [[Samuel Romilly]]. His parents were [[French Huguenots]].<ref name="ODNB">{{cite ODNB|id=24008|first=T. Jock|last=Murray|title=Roget, Peter Mark}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Proceedings of the Huguenot Society of London |date=1911 |publisher=Huguenot Society of London. |volume=9 |page=546 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NUhNAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA546 |language=en}}</ref> Following his father's death, the family moved to Edinburgh in 1783 where Roget later studied medicine at the [[University of Edinburgh]], graduating in 1798.<ref name="ODNB"/> Samuel Romilly, who took on the role of surrogate father to Roget and supported his nephew's education, also introduced him into [[Whigs (British political party)|Whig]] social circles.<ref name="Desmond">{{cite book |last1=Desmond |first1=Adrian |title=The Politics of Evolution: Morphology, Medicine, and Reform in Radical London |date=1992 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=9780226143743 |pages=222–3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-fkLzEwjWycC&pg=PA222 |language=en}}</ref>

Roget then attended lectures at London medical schools.<ref name="ODNB"/> Living in [[Clifton, Bristol]], from 1798 to 1799, he knew [[Thomas Beddoes]] and [[Humphry Davy]] and frequented the [[Pneumatic Institute]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Fullmer |first1=June Z. |title=Young Humphry Davy: The Making of an Experimental Chemist |date=2000 |publisher=American Philosophical Society |isbn=9780871692375 |page=[https://archive.org/details/younghumphrydavy0000full/page/131 131] |url=https://archive.org/details/younghumphrydavy0000full |url-access=registration |language=en}}</ref>

Not making a quick start to a medical career, in 1802 Roget took a position as a tutor to the sons of [[John Leigh Philips]], with whom he began a [[Grand Tour]] during the [[Peace of Amiens]], travelling with a friend, Lovell Edgeworth, son of [[Richard Lovell Edgeworth]]. When the Peace abruptly ended he was detained as a prisoner in Geneva. He was able to bring his pupils back to England in late 1803, but Edgeworth was held in captivity until [[Napoleon]] fell on 6 April 1814.<ref name="ODNB"/>