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Samuel Pepys

1633–1703 · 17th century

Samuel Pepys was an English naval administrator and member of parliament, best known for the diary he kept from 1660 to 1669, describing the Restoration court, the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London. As Secretary to the Admiralty he helped reform the navy. He was treasurer of the Tangier committee and went with the expedition that evacuated English Tangier in 1683–1684.

Samuel Pepys
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