Who is Samuel Pepys?
Samuel Pepys, (1633 – 1703) was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament, famous chiefly for his comprehensive diary. Although Pepys had no maritime experience, he rose by hard work and his talent for administration to be the Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under King James II. He was one of the first to apply methodical research and careful record keeping to the business of government, and his influence was important in the early development of the British Civil Service. The detailed private diary that he kept during 1660 – 1669 was published after his death and is one of the most important primary sources for the English Restoration period. It provides a fascinating combination of personal revelation and eyewitness accounts of great events, such as the Great Plague of London, the Second Dutch War and the Great Fire of London. Quite like that of Samuel Pepys, B N Tandon’s diary will have an abiding place in Indian history as one of the most authentic sources of accurat
Samuel Pepys is one of the well known British writer. But there is a difference between him and John Donne, Shakespear, or even Sir Thomas More. Rather then earn his name through writings of poetry, or amazing plays, he earned it by keeping a diary. Samuel Pepys was born in London on February 23, 1633. His father was a tailor and had come from a good family. Pepys did well in school and was even awarded a scholarship along with his degree in 1654. It has been thought that perhaps he had the goals of becomeing a lawyer, but that after the execution of the King and an establishment of a republic, he changed his mind. Pepys became secretary to a distant relative who was a councillor of state. Later, in 1655, he got married to fifteen year old Elizabeth Marchant de Saint-Michel. About five years later at the age of twenty-seven, Pepys began writing his diary. Unfortunatly in 1669, he was forced to stop writing because of a fear of losing his eye sight. A year later he was appointed as cler
