Samuel Pepys

✶February 23, 1633

†May 26, 1703

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Samuel Pepys 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.

English diarist and administrator (1633–1703)

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Biography from the article Samuel Pepys on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.