Samuel Pepys

Writing

Born: February 23, 1633

Birthplace: Salisbury Court, London, England [now UK]

Samuel Pepys was an English writer and Tory politician. He served as an official in the Navy Board and as a Member of the Parliament, but is most remembered today for the diary he kept for almost a decade during the 17th-century in London from 1660 to 1669. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Sallis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.