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Pepys, Samuel
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Pepys, Samuel (1633–1703). Diarist, naval official, bibliophile, musician, member of Parliament, president of the Royal Society, twice master of Trinity House, Pepys lived through an epoch when capacity and drive could help a man rise high, especially if assisted by patronage. Pepys's patron was his cousin Edward Montagu, a naval commander under the republic who promoted Charles II's restoration and became earl of
Sandwich. Pepys was appointed clerk of the acts (secretary) to the Navy Board in 1660 when that body effectively ran the navy under James, duke of York. Weathering the disasters of the second Dutch War, Pepys was appointed the first secretary of the Admiralty in 1673.
For all his contributions to the navy's well‐being, however, Pepys has become much the best‐known Englishman of the 17th cent. through his diary, or ‘Journal’, kept in shorthand and complete secrecy between January 1660 and May 1669. Sometimes priggish, it is guileless in self‐revelation.
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Samuel Pepys: the Unequalled Self.(The Man Who Drew London: Wenceslas Hollar in reality and imagination)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: History Today; 11/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...PRICE 16.99 [pounds sterling] SAMUEL PEPYS WAS FASCINATED WITH HIMSLE. Pepys...simple man, struggled to the end. Pepys left the most intimate details...personalities indeed. The lives of Samuel Pepys and Wencelaus Hollar overlapped...
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Samuel Pepys: A Life. .(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Albion; 12/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; Stephen Coote. SAMUEL PEPYS: A LIFE. New York: Palgrave. 2001. Pp. xiii, 386. $27...appear in second hand bookshops alongside Arthur Bryant's trilogy, Samuel Pepys (1933-39). Like his predecessor, Coote has produced a predictable...
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Reviews: Samuel Pepys: What Pepys' diary didn't reveal
Newspaper article from: Scotland on Sunday; 9/22/2002; ; 620 words
; SAMUEL PEPYS by Claire Tomalin Viking, 20 pounds GENERATIONS of schoolchildren have seen the Great Fire of London through the eyes of Samuel Pepys, whose diary is both historical treasure and literary landmark. Yet...
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A new life of Samuel Pepys. (Reviews).(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 4/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Claire Tomalin...ego of whom alone he cared to write'. Pepys' 'ego' led him to write his diary and his fame rests on what he wrote. Samuel Pepys was born the son of a tailor and educated...
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PEPYS UNCENSORED; Dear diary: Steve Coogan and Lou Doillon play Samuel Pepys and his wife in a BBC film. Above, the real Pepys.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 8/25/2007; 700+ words
; Byline: CHRISTOPHER HUDSON SAMUEL Pepys was not at his brightest. This was...to berestored to the throne - and Pepys had been drinking in taverns round...woken by a present of Bretonoysters. Pepys was then 27 years old, short and...
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Samuel Pepys' 300th: A decent dinner for a diarist
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 6/8/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...to the centenary dinner of the Samuel Pepys Club specified not only black tie...was elected Master in 1677. The Samuel Pepys Club was founded on 26 May 1903...the eye - the Immortal Memory of Samuel Pepys. So many toasts, in fact, that...
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The most famous civil servant ever If Samuel Pepys was fascinated with himself and his times, then he had good reason to be, says Max Hastings
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 9/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin Penguin, pounds 20, 544 pp pounds...excluding Churchill, Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy. We are familiar with Samuel Pepys's bowel movements and emotions, his human relationships and infidelities...
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The irrepressible Pepys.(17th century diarist Samuel Pepys)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; Samuel Pepys's Diary (1660-1669) is an extraordinary...but its most extraordinary aspect is that Pepys seems to have had no model for it. In terms...interests of philosophical inquiry, which Pepys did not--and in any case Pepys had not...
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HISTORY NOEL MALCOLM ENJOYS A THRILLING ACCOUNT OF HOW SAMUEL PEPYS NEARLY LOST HIS HEAD
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 8/19/2007; ; 700+ words
; The Plot against Pepys BY JAMES LONG AND BEN LONG FABER, pounds...0870 428 4115 One day in October 1678 Samuel Pepys made an enemy. He had never met the...now set in train that would almost cost Pepys his life: during the year that followed...
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Samuel Pepys a Life.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 8/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Coote ventures insight into both Samuel Pepys and his diary. If biography aims...hopeful note when he observes that Pepys's "identity as a man was firmly...Providing a ready synthesis of Pepys's involvement in main events of...
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Samuel Pepys
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Samuel Pepys The English diarist and public official Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) kept a diary that provides...the early period of the Restoration. Samuel Pepys was born on Feb. 23, 1633, in London...
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Pepys, Samuel (1633–1703)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
PEPYS, SAMUEL (1633 – 1703) PEPYS, SAMUEL (1633 – 1703), English diarist and politician. Although Samuel Pepys spent fewer than ten years of his life keeping a daily...
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Cockerell, Samuel Pepys
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Cockerell, Samuel Pepys (1753–1827). English architect. A pupil of Sir Robert Taylor , he held several important official posts from 1774...
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Pepys, Samuel
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
Pepys, Samuel (1633–1703), naval administrator...after obtaining his bachelor's degree Pepys entered the service of his first cousin...royalist cause and he was driven from office. Pepys remained in charge of his cousin's affairs...
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Pepys (pron. Peeps or Peppis), Samuel
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Pepys (pron. Peeps or Peppis), Samuel (1633–1703), son of John Pepys, a London tailor, entered the household of Sir...His famous Diary opens on 1 Jan. 1660, when Pepys was living in Axe Yard, Westminster, and was...
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