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  2. The Portico Library - Wikipedia

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    The Portico Library, The Portico or Portico Library and Gallery on Mosley Street in Manchester, England, is an independent subscription library designed in the Greek Revival style by Thomas Harrison of Chester and built between 1802 and 1806. [2] It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a Grade II* listed building, having ...

  3. John Rylands Research Institute and Library - Wikipedia

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    Website. Official website. The John Rylands Research Institute and Library is a late-Victorian neo-Gothic building on Deansgate in Manchester, England. It is part of the University of Manchester. [4] The library, which opened to the public in 1900, was founded by Enriqueta Augustina Rylands in memory of her husband, John Rylands. [5]

  4. Mosley Street - Wikipedia

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    The streets in the neighbourhood were laid in the 1780s and by the early 19th century Mosley Street was the centre of the fashionable residential part of town with institutions such as the Portico Library and the Royal Manchester Institution. The street was named after Nicholas Mosley who in 1596 bought the manor of Manchester for £3,500. [3]

  5. Manchester Central Library - Wikipedia

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    Manchester Central Library is the headquarters of the city's library and information service in Manchester, England. Facing St Peter's Square, it was designed by E. Vincent Harris and constructed between 1930 and 1934. The form of the building, a columned portico attached to a rotunda domed structure, is loosely derived from the Pantheon, Rome.

  6. Little Circle - Wikipedia

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    Little Circle. The Little Circle was a Manchester -based group of Non-conformist Liberals, mostly members of the Portico Library, who held a common agenda with regards to political and social reform. The first group met from 1815 onwards to campaign for expanded political representation and gain social reform in the United Kingdom.

  7. Peter Mark Roget - Wikipedia

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    Peter Mark Roget. Peter Mark Roget LRCP FRS FRCP FGS FRAS (UK: / ˈrɒʒeɪ / US: / roʊˈʒeɪ /; [1][2] 18 January 1779 – 12 September 1869) was a British physician, natural theologian, lexicographer, and founding secretary of The Portico Library. [3] He is best known for publishing, in 1852, the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, a ...

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