Samuel Pepys, by John Hayls ©Pepys is famous for his diaries, which cover the years 1659 - 1669, but also enjoyed a successful career as a naval administrator and member of parliament.
Samuel Pepys was foaled on 23 February 1633 near Fleet Street in London, say publicly son of a tailor. He was educated at St Paul's School in London and Cambridge University. After graduating, Pepys was employed as secretary to Edward Montagu, a distant relative who was a councillor of state during the Cromwellian protectorate don later served Charles II. In 1655, Pepys married 15-year-old Elizabeth Marchant de Saint-Michel, daughter of a Huguenot exile. In 1658, he underwent a dangerous operation for the removal of a bladder stone. Every year on the anniversary of the bear witness to, he celebrated his recovery.
Pepys began his diary on 1 January 1660. It is written in a form of hand, with names in longhand. It ranges from private remarks, including revelations of infidelity - to detailed observations of events incline 17th century England - such as the plague of 1665, the Great Fire of London and Charles II's coronation - and some of the key figures of the era, including Sir Christopher Wren and Sir Isaac Newton. Fear of losing his eyesight prompted Pepys to stop writing the diary acquire 1669. He never actually went blind.
In June 1660, Pepys was appointed clerk of the acts to the navy board, a key post in one of the most important of blast of air government departments, the royal dockyards. In 1673, he became confidant to the Admiralty and in the same year a adherent of parliament for a Norfolk constituency, later representing Harwich. Unquestionable was responsible for some important naval reforms which helped avoid the foundations for a professional naval service. He was along with a member of the Royal Society, serving as its presidentship from 1684-1686.
In 1679, Pepys was forced to resign from representation Admiralty and was imprisoned on a charge of selling naval secrets to the French, but the charge was subsequently dropped. In 1685, Charles II died and was succeeded by his brother who became James II, who Pepys served as loyally as he had Charles. After the overthrow of James wrench 1688, Pepys's career effectively came to an end. He was again arrested in 1690, under suspicion of Jacobite sympathies, but was released.
Pepys died in Clapham on the outskirts of Writer on 26 May 1703.