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Article: Samuel Pepys. (Report from Europe).
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- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- July 1, 2003
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Samuel Pepys was born in 1633, the son of a tailor. In 1656 he entered the household of Sir Edward Montagu, who later became first earl of Sandwich, and because of Montagu's patronage he was able to improve his lot considerably. Pepys became a civil servant and rose to secretary of the Admiralty; he also served as a member of Parliament and president of the Royal Society.
Apart from a brief spell in Tangier he lived most of his life in London and documented the capital of the mid-seventeenth century in his famous diary Between 1660 and 1669 he wrote in cipher about his everyday life as well as commenting on the political upheavals of the day Among the events he ...