Samuel Pepys
(1633-1703)
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On Pepys's
diary:
“Private diary, January,
1660-May, 1669; the nonpareil of English diaries; the observations and records
of a man of infinite variety and zest, “ever with child to see new things”;
his own work, domestic life, friendships, and pleasures, which took him into
almost every section of English life, from the court to the docks; in its
immediacy and variety it is one of the supreme portraits of a man, inside and
outside, and a mirror of the times.” (William Matthews, comp., British
Diaries: An Annotated Bibliography of British Diaries Written between 1442 and
1942 (Berkeley and Los Angeles / London: University of California Press, 1950, p. 29.)
brief biographical notes
23 Feb 1633
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Born in Salisbury
Court, off Fleet Street, London
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Educated at Huntingdon and St. Paul’s School
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1651
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Entered Magdalene College, Cambridge
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1654 |
Graduated BA
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1660
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Graduated MA
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1 Dec 1655 |
Married Elizabeth St.
Michel |
1656 |
Steward to Sir Edward
Montagu |
1 Jan 1660
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Diary begins; Resided at
Axe Yard, Westminster; Clerk to Sir George Downing, Teller of the
Exchequer; Clerk of the Acts; Moved to Navy Office between Crutched
Friars and Seething Lane; Clerk of the Privy Seal; Justice of the
Peace |
1662 |
Member of Tangier
Commission |
1665 |
Treasurer of the Tangier
Commission |
1668 |
Spoke in defence of the
Navy before the House of Commons |
31 May 1669 |
Diary concluded |
10 Nov 1669 |
Death of his wife |
1673 |
Secretary of the Admiralty |
1676 |
Master of Trinity House |
1679
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MP for Harwich;
resigned Secretaryship of the Admiralty; Committed to the Tower on
accusation of sending information about the Navy to the French
Government |
1680 |
Discharged |
1683 |
Visit to Tangier; wrote
Tangier Diary |
1684 |
Again appointed Secretary
of the Admiralty; President of the Royal Society |
1685 |
MP for Harwich |
1686 |
Secretary of the Admiralty |
1689
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End of his official career
as Secretary of the Navy; Committed to the Gatehouse in June, released
in July |
1690 |
Published Memoirs of the
Royal Navy |
1701 |
Retired to William Hewer’s
House at Clapham |
26 May 1703 |
Died at Clapham (buried in
St. Olave’s Church, Hart Street) |
online resources
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from: Eighteenth-Century E-Texts, edited by Jack Lynch:
Pepys's diary
- Latham, R. and W. Matthews, eds. The Diary of
Samuel Pepys. Vols. 1-9. London: G. Bell and Sons / Berkeley and Los
Angeles: University of California Press, 1970-76. Vols. 10-11. London: Bell
& Hyman / Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press,
1983.
correspondence
- Howarth, R. G., ed., Letters and the
Second Diary of Samuel Pepys. London: J. M. Dent, 1932.
- Heath, H. T., ed., The Letters of Samuel
Pepys and His Family Circle. Oxford: Clarendon, 1955.
- Tanner, J. R., ed., Private
Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers of Samuel Pepys, 1679-1703. 2
Vols.
language
- Taylor, Ivan E. 1963. “Mr. Pepys's Use of
Colloquial English”. College Language Association Journal 7. 22-36.
- Nakamura, Fujio. 1981. “Observations on
the Language of Samuel Pepys’s ‘Diary’: Some Peculiarities in the Use
of Progressive”. Persica (Annual Publication of the English
Literary Society of Okayama) 8. 137-57.
- Nakamura, Fujio. 1985. “Oxford English
Dictionary and Samuel Pepys’s ‘Diary’”. Mulberry (Annual
Publication of the English Literary Society of Aichi Prefectural University)
34. 107-33.
- Nakamura, Fujio. 1986. “Oxford English
Dictionary and Samuel Pepys’s ‘Diary’: Possible Antedatings and
Postdatings (1)”. Mulberry (Annual Publication of the English
Literary Society of Aichi Prefectural University) 35. 161-71.
- Nakamura, Fujio. 1987. “Oxford English
Dictionary and Samuel Pepys’s ‘Diary’: Possible Antedatings and
Postdatings (2)”. Bulletin of the Faculty of Literature, Aichi
Prefectural University 35. 71-77.
- Nakamura, Fujio. 1987. “Auxiliary Have in
Samuel Pepys’s ‘Diary’, with Special Reference to Mutative Verbs: (1)
A Statistical Study”. Studies in Modern English (Annual
Publication of Modern English Association of Japan) 3. 23-51.
- Nakamura, Fujio. 1988. “A Word on the
Regulation of the Auxiliary Do: Samuel Pepys’s ‘Diary’ as a Test Case”.
Mulberry (Annual Publication of the English Literary Society of
Aichi Prefectural University) 37. 113-45.
of
related interest
- Marburg, C. Mr. Pepys and Mr. Evelyn.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1935.
(for additions, contact Fujio
Nakamura)
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