Pepys, Samuel
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
PEPYS, SAMUEL peps, 1633 1703, English public official, and celebrated diarist, b. London, grad. Magdalene College...vindicated and freed in 1680. In 1684 Pepys was reappointed secretary to the admiralty...Memoirs of the Royal Navy (1690). Pepys left his valuable library, including...