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Samuel Pepys

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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English diarist and administrator (1633–1703)

Born 23 February 1633
Died 26 May 1703

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  • Cover of: Samuel Pepys' Penny merriments: being a collection of chapbooks, full of histories, jests, magic, amorous tales of courtship, marriage and infidelity, accounts of rogues and fools, together with comments on the times

    First published in 1977 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: A Pepysian garland: black-letter broadside ballads of the years 1595-1639, chiefly from the collection of Samuel Pepys

    First published in 1922 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Vol. 5: 1664

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  • Cover of: Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys

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  • Cover of: 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

    First published in 1825 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Diary of Samuel Pepys Preface and Life

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  • Cover of: Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys

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  • Cover of: LETTERS OF SAMUEL PEPYS; ED. BY GUY DE LA BEDOYERE.

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  • Cover of: PEPYS'S LATER DIARIES; ED. BY C.S. KNIGHTON.

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  • Cover of: The Great Fire of London: an account taken from the diary of Mr. Samuel Pepys.

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  • Cover of: Passages from the diary of Samuel Pepys

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  • Cover of: A Pepysian garland: black-letter broadside ballads of the years 1595-1639, chiefly from the collection of Samuel Pepys.

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  • Cover of: The illustrated Pepys: extracts from the diary

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  • Cover of: A shorter Pepys: the Diary of Samuel Pepys. Abridged by F.W. Tickner

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English diarist and administrator (1633–1703)

Born 23 February 1633
Died 26 May 1703

Subjects

History, Social life and customs, Sources, Pepys, samuel, 1633-1703, Diaries, Great britain, social life and customs, Statesmen, Cabinet officers, great britain, English diaries, Diarists, English Authors, Great Britain, Great britain, history, restoration, 1660-1688, sources, Cabinet officers, Correspondence, Manners and customs, Great Britain. Royal Navy, Biography, Naval History, Early works to 1800, Mœurs et coutumes, Statesmen, great britain, Christ's Hospital (London, England), Description and travel, Early modern

Places

Great Britain, England, Tangier (Morocco), London, Grande-Bretagne, Araby, Araby bazaar, London (England), North Richmond Street, Portugal

People

Samuel Pepys (1633-1703), Charles II King of England, Mangan's sister, Alfred Doolittle, Charles II King of England (1630-1685), Charles II King of Great Britain (1630-1685), Colonel Pickering, Eliza Doolittle, Freddy Eynsford Hill, Galatea, Henry Higgins, John Evelyn (1620-1706), Mrs. Higgins, Pygmalion, Samuel Pepys

Time

Stuarts, 1603-1714, 17th century, Charles II, 1660-1685, Early modern, 1500-1700, Restoration, 1660-1688, 1603-1714 (Stuarts), 17e siècle, 1912, Alfonso VI, 1656-1683, Restoration, 1660-1700, Stuart, 1603-1714

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  • PEPYS, SAMUEL, 1633-1703.
  • Pepys. Samuel
  • Samuel, Pepys
  • Samuel PEPYS
  • Samuel Peyps
  • Pepys, Samuel, 1633-1703
  • Samuel [collections ] Pepys
  • Samuel [Collections] Pepys
  • Samuel Pepys.
  • S. Pepys

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