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. Samuel Pepys survived the Great Plague of 1665. Samuel Pepys Biography. The accepted pronunciation today of his curiously spelled name is PEEPS.

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Sjoerd on 20 May 2004 • Link Stephen Coote's "Samuel Pepys: a life" gives an "uncluttered" biography and puts reading the diary entries in perspective. A passionate man, he applies his zeal to many areas of his life. Samuel Pepys is the author and narrator of The Diary of Samuel Pepys.

A passionate man, he applies his zeal to many areas of his life. Samuel Pepys, (23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an English administrator at the Admiralty and Member of Parliament.He is famous for his diary.. Pepys rose to be the Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under Charles II, and later under James II.Although Pepys had no maritime experience, he rose by patronage, hard work and his talent for administration. Samuel Pepys PRS, MP, JP, (/ ˈ p iː p s /; 23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament who is now most famous for the diary he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man.

The English diarist and public official Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) kept a diary that provides a graphic account of English social life and conditions during the early period of the Restoration. Samuel Pepys (1633. február 23. It destroyed 13,000 houses. – 1703. május 26.) Historical novelist Deborah Swift reveals seven fascinating facts about the diarist… Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self. Samuel Pepys is the astonishing biography by bestselling author Claire Tomalin. Samuel Pepys Net Worth, Age, Height, Weight, Body Measurements, Dating, Marriage, Relationship Stats, Family, Career, Wiki.Scroll below and check our most recent updates about about Samuel Pepys's Biography, Salary, Estimated Net worth, Expenses, Income Reports & Financial Breakdown 2020! Book Condition:VERYGOOD. Pepys’s last 14 years, despite attempts by his political adversaries to molest him, were spent in honourable retirement in his riverside house in York Buildings, amassing and arranging the library that he ultimately left to Magdalene College, Cambridge, corresponding with scholars and artists, and collecting material for a history of the navy that he never lived to complete, though he published a prelude to it in … Biography. He was born at Hackney, Middlesex, and was educated at Westminster School under Richard Busby, and at Christ Church, Oxford, matriculating on 11 December 1651.. Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys, (born February 23, 1633, London, England—died May 26, 1703, London), English diarist and naval administrator, celebrated for his Diary (first published in 1825), which gives a fascinating picture of the official and upper-class life of Restoration London from Jan. 1, 1660, to May 31, 1669.

But did you know that Pepys ‘rescued’ a cheese during the Great Fire of London and once kept a lion as a pet? 2002 WHITBREAD BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Immaculately well done. Samuel Pepys was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament who is most known for the diaries which he wrote from 1660 to 1669.

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Claire Tomalin's biography of Samuel Pepys covers his life before, during, and after the years when he kept his famous journals, so her book gives us invaluable context for understanding Pepys's idiosyncratic, fly-on-the-wall view of the transition to and through Cromwell to Charles II, James II, and William, Prince of Orange, James II's successor to the English throne. Book Binding:N/A.

We know lots about these two events from his diary. Author:Tomalin, Claire.

World of Books USA was founded in 2005. Pepys was sent to school first at Huntingdon and later to St. Paul's in London. A Biography. Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin Viking £20, pp499.
He also saw the Great Fire of London in 1666.

"Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self" is full biography - a biography that uses a six volume diary (that covers a 10 year period of his life) as a primary source. Detailed and intimate, Pepys’ diaries became a mainstay of British literature after their first publication in 1825.

Previous Next. Early life. Writer . The diary of Samuel Pepys (1633–1703) gives us a fly-on-the-wall account of life during the 17th century – from the devastation of war and plague, to the triumphant return of Charles II.

Title:Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self.