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The Portico Library
Although the building was originally built for the library, the ground floor was leased to the Bank of Athens in 1921 and a floor was added to the gallery creating a new first floor and that is where the library now resides. The library's first chairman was John Ferriar. Its first secretary, Peter Mark Roget, began his thesaurus here. Other notable members have included John Dalton, Reverend William Gaskell, Sir Robert Peel and more recently Eric Cantona.
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