Samuel Pepys

Samuel Pepys, (23 February 1633 - 26 May 1703) was a leading 17th century English civil servant, latterly famous for his diary. The diary is a fascinating combination of personal revelation and eyewitness accounts of great events, such as the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London.

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(His surname is pronounced "Peeps", although some modern relatives with the same name pronounce it "Pep-iss".)

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Pepys was born in London in 1633, the son of a tailor. He was educated at St Paul's School, London, between about 1646 and 1650. In 1649 he attended the execution of Charles I. He went up to Magdalene College, Cambridge in 1651 and took his BA in 1654. Some time later that year or early in 1655, he entered the household of his distant cousin, Edward Montagu. On December 1, 1655 he married Elisabeth St Michel in St Margaret's, Westminster.

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