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Samuel Pepys

23 February 1633 - 26 May 1703

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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  • Cover of: 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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  • Cover of: 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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  • Cover of: 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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  • Cover of: 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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  • Cover of: Mr. Pepys to the Lord Mayor upon the present state of Christ-Hospital. To the Right Honourable Sir Humphry Edwin, Lord Mayor

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  • Cover of: Mr. Pepys to the Right Honourable Sir Francis Child, Kt. Lord Mayor, and to the Court of Aldermen: upon the present state of Christ-Hospital

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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

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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

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  • Cover of: The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete

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  • Cover of: The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Esq., F.r.s. from 1659 to 1669 With Memoir

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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

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  • Cover of: The life, journals, and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, including a narrative of his voyage to ...

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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, Statesmen, great britain, Christ's Hospital (London, England), Description and travel, Early modern, Authors, english
Places
Great Britain, England, Tangier (Morocco), London, Araby, Araby bazaar, London (England), North Richmond Street, Grande-Bretagne, 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, 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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