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.

Pepysiana

• Pepys Island, alleged to be near South Georgia, was named after him, being first discovered during his tenure at the Admiralty.
• Among his colleagues at the Navy Office was Admiral Sir William Penn, father of the William Penn who founded Pennsylvania, in the United States of America.
• The refectory building at the British Civil Service College has been named in his honour.
• Composer Robert Steadman set a number of sections from the diary in a 30-minute work for narrator, junior choir and small orchestra entitled Pepys' Diary which was commissioned by the City of London Freemen's School.
• There is a probability problem called the "Newton-Pepys Problem" which arose out of correspondence between Newton and Pepys about whether one was more likely to roll a six with six dice or two sixes with twelve dice. Eric W. Weisstein. Newton-Pepys Problem. From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource.