Pepys, Samuel
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
PEPYS, SAMUEL peps, 1633 1703, English public official...in 1660. That same year he started as a clerk in the navy office and by 1668 he was an important naval official...retirement, where he wrote his Memoirs of the Royal Navy (1690). Pepys left his valuable library, including his diary in cipher...