Samuel Pepys
English diarist and administrator (1633–1703)
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Samuel Pepys was an English diarist and government administrator who lived from 1633 to 1703 and kept a detailed personal diary during a transformative period in English history. His diary, which recorded his daily life and observations of major events like the Great Fire of London and the Restoration of the monarchy, provides historians with an invaluable firsthand account of 17th-century England.
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- 23 February 1633
- Died
- 26 May 1703
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- 320
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- Dziennik Samuela Pepysa
- Diary and correspondence, in the reigns of Charles II. and James II
- Diary of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.
- Passages from The diary
- The Pepys ballads
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Samuel Pepys (/ˈpiːps/ PEEPS; 23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an English writer and Tory politician. He served as an official in the Navy Board and Member of Parliament, but is now most renowned for the diary he kept for almost a decade, first published in the 19th century and one of the most important primary sources of the Stuart Restoration.
Son of a tailor, Pepys was educated at St Paul's School and attended Magdalene College, Cambridge. After receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree, he entered the service of his cousin Sir Edward Montagu, and later found work as a teller in the Exchequer under George Downing. Pepys began to keep a detailed private diary in 1660. The diary provides a combination of personal revelation and eyewitness accounts of major events, such as the Second Anglo-Dutch War, the Great Plague of London, and the Great Fire of London. He recorded his daily life until 1669 when concerns over fading eyesight forced him to abandon the routine.
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