Samuel Pepys

Samuel Pepys was born in 1633, the son of a London tailor, and pursued an administrative career that took him to the secretaryship of the Admiralty and to Parliament, with a spell in the Tower in 1679, during the panic of the Popish Plot. He assembled a library of three thousand volumes, uniformly bound and arranged by size. He recorded his days for nine years and stopped for fear of losing his sight, which did not happen. He died in 1703.

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• DiaryThe Diary of Samuel PepysSamuel Pepys · 1825LiteraturePublic domain