Samuel Pepys was born on February 23rd 1633 in Salisbury Court off Fleet Street. His father, John, was a tailor, his mother Margaret Kite was sister of a Whitechapel butcher and Samuel was fifth in a line of eleven children.
His knowledge of shorthand, his political connections through Montagu (now Earl of Sandwich and First Lord of the Admiralty, having brought the King back from exile), and his subsequent government posts as one of the principal officers of the navy administration, gave him power and moderate wealth.
His love of order and efficiency made him a man of some importance and he proudly and successfully addressed the Commons on naval matters. His speech to the Commons on March 5th 1668 pleased him enormously.
For us he is best known for his less than ten years of personal diaries, at once personal and historic, characterful and literary. (Edited from pepys.info.)
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The diary of Samuel Pepys
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Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S., secretary to the Admiralty in the reigns of Charles II and James II: with a life and notes by Richard, Lord Braybrooke.
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Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S
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Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S., Secretary to the Admiralty in the reign of Charles II and James II
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Passages from the diary of Samuel Pepys
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Everybody's Pepys: the diary of Samuel Pepys, 1660-1669
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Memoirs of Samuel Pepys... comprising his diary... and a selection from his private correspondence
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Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys
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A Pepys anthology: passages from the diary of Samuel Pepys
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Charles II's escape from Worcester: a collection of narratives
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The letters of Samuel Pepys and his family circle
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The diary of Samuel Pepys, esquire, F. R. S
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1663 N.S
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Shorthand letters of Samuel Pepys: from a volume entitled S. Pepys' official correspondence, 1662-1679
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Mr. Pepys to the President and Governours of Christ-Hospital upon the present state of the said hospital: To the Honour'd Sir John Moor, Kt. and President, and the rest of my honour'd friends, the Governours of Christ-Hospital
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Red-letter days of Samuel Pepys
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1667 N.S
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Private correspondence and miscellaneous papers of Samuel Pepys, 1679-1703: in the possession of J. Pepys Cockerell
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Samuel Pepys' diary
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1668 N.S
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1661 N.S
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Private correspondence and miscellaneous papers of Samuel Pepys, 1679-1703, in the possession of J. Pepys Cockerell
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1660 N.S
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The illustrated Pepys: extracts from the diary
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Diary of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S., Secretary to the Admiralty in the reigns of Charles II & James II: the diary
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Further correspondence of Samuel Pepys, 1662-1679: from the family papers in the possession of J. Pepys Cockerell
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Vol. 3: 1662 (Diary of Samuel Pepys)
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Vol. 9: 1668-1669
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1662 N.S
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Diary of Samuel Pepys Esq. F.R.S
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Vol. 8: 1667
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Vol. 7: 1666
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Tagebuch aus dem London des 17. Jahrhunderts
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1669 N.S
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1664 N.S
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Vol. 6: 1665
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Memoires relating to the state of the Royal Navy of England: for ten years, determin'd December 1688 ...
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1666 N.S
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The Concise Pepys
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Vol. 4: 1663
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The diary of Samuel Pepys, 1660-1669
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Samuel Pepys's naval minutes
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Vol. 5: 1664
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1665 N.S
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Samuel Pepys and the Second Dutch War
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Letters and the second diary of Samuel Pepys
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Pepys's later diaries
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Memoires relating to the state of the Royal Navy of England, for ten years, determin'd December 1688
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Diary of Samuel Pepys deciphered by the Rev. J. Smith, M. A: from the original shorthand ms. in the Pepysian library, Cambridge
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The life, journals, and correspondence of Samuel Pepys ..: including a narrative of his voyage to Tangier
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The diary of Samuel Pepys, 1666
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Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, esq., F. R. S., secretary to the Admiralty in the reigns of Charles II and James II, comprising his diary from 1659 to 1669, deciphered by the Rev. John Smith ... from the original short-hand ms. in the Pepysian library, and a selection from his private correspondence
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Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, esq., F.R.S
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The diary of Samuel Pepys Esq. F.R.S. from 1659 to 1669 with memoir
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Memoirs of Samuel Pepys
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The Portugal history: or a relation of the troubles that happened in the Court of Portugal in the years 1667 and 1668 : in which is to be seen that great transaction of the renunciation of the crown by Alphonso the sixth, the dissolution of his marriage with the Princess Maria Frances Isabella of Savoy: the marriage of the same Princess Maria Frances Isabella of Savoy ...
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Mr. Secretary Pepys: with extracts from his diary
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Diary of Samuel Pepys Complete 1661 N.S
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The diary of Samuel Pepys, 1663-1664
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The diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, Esq
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Pepys' Memories of the Royal Navy, 1679-1688
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The diary of Samuel Pepys, from June to October, 1667
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Exciting days in Samuel Pepys' diary
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A shorter Pepys, extracts from the Diary, selected and edited by F.W. Tickner
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The Diary Of Samuel Pepys - Selections
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Diary of Samuel Pepys Complete 1666 N.S
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1663 N.S (Diary of Samuel Pepys)
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1667 N.S (Diary of Samuel Pepys)
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Charles Ii's Escape from Worcester:
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Samuel Pepys Collection
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The diary of Samuel Pepys, from 1659 to 1669; with a memoir
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And so to bed: a new selection from the diary of Samuel Pepys for the years 1660-1662.
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A diary of the great warr
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The Illustrated Pepys
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The Tangier papers of Samuel Pepys
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The diary of Samuel Pepys, 1662-1663
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Diary of Samuel Pepys Complete 1663 N.S
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The Portugal history, or, A relation of the troubles that happened in the court of Portugal in the years 1667 and 1668: in which is to be seen that great transaction of the renunciation of the crown by Alphonso the Sixth, the dissolution of his marriage with the Princess Maria Frances Isabella of Savoy : the marriage of the same princess to the Prince Don Pedro, regent of the realm of Portugal, and the reasons alledged at Rome for the dispensation thereof
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Vol. 2: 1661 (Diary of Samuel Pepys)
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Everbody's Pepys: the Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1660-1669
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Samuel Pepys das geheine tagebuch, mit 27 wiedergaben von zeitgenössischen Kupfern
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Das geheime Tagebuch
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Diary
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Mr. Pepys to the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen upon the present state of Christ-Hospital: To the Right Honourable Sir Humphry Edwin, Lord Mayor. : York-Buildings, July 11, 1698
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PEPYS'S LATER DIARIES; ED. BY C.S. KNIGHTON
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1666 N.S (Diary of Samuel Pepys)
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Diary of Samuel Pepys Complete 1660 N.S
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The diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, Esq., F.R.S., Secretary to the Admiralty in the reigns of Charles II and James II, 1659-1703
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Samuel Pepys: Journal (coffret de 2 volumes)
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The diary of Samuel Pepys, from March to November, 1668
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Pepys' Memoires of the Royal Navy
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Samuel Pepys - Journal, tome 1: 1660-1664
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1665 N.S (Diary of Samuel Pepys)
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Diary of Samuel Pepys Complete 1669 N.S
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A record of Samuel Pepys' financial accounts, 1660-1669
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Peeps into Pepys
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Diary of Samuel Pepys Complete 1665 N.S
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Vol. 10: Companion
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The diary of Samuel Pepys, from November, 1666, to May, 1667
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King Charles preserved: an account of his escape after the battle of Worcester
1 edition - first published in 1956
Samuel Pepys
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