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Samuel Pepys FRS (/ p iː p s / PEEPS; [1] 23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an English writer and Tory politician. He served as an official in the Navy Board and Member of Parliament, but is most remembered today for the diary he kept for almost a decade.
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self is a 2002 historical biography by Claire Tomalin. It charts the life of Samuel Pepys , a 17th-century English diarist and naval administrator. The main source for the biography is the diary which Pepys wrote between 1660 and 1669, though Tomalin also draws in various other sources, including letters and other ...
This portrait, along with one of Samuel Pepys painted by Kneller, remained with Pepys family heirs until the 20th century. William Hewer (1642 – 3 December 1715), sometimes known as Will Hewer , was one of Samuel Pepys ' manservants, and later Pepys's clerk, before embarking on an administrative career of his own.
Samuel Pepys Cockerell (15 February 1753 – 12 July 1827) [1] was an English architect.. He was a son of John Cockerell, of Bishop's Hull, Somerset, and the elder brother of Sir Charles Cockerell, 1st Baronet, for whom he designed the house he is best known for, Sezincote House, Gloucestershire, the uniquely Orientalising features of which inspired the more extravagant Brighton Pavilion.
Samuel Pepys made three subscriptions to the building fund. On the front of the building is the painted inscription Bibliotheca Pepysiana 1724 which records the date of arrival of the library; above it are painted Pepys's coat of arms and his motto "Mens cujusque is est quisque" ("The mind's the man" taken from Cicero's De re publica 6.26).
In the seventeenth century the Duke of Norfolk was the dominant interest: it was the Norfolk interest which enabled Samuel Pepys to gain the seat in 1673. At the start of the 18th century, the borough belonged to the Walpole family, and Sir Robert Walpole (Britain's first Prime Minister) began his parliamentary career here.
How to watch Super Bowl halftime show 2025. The Super Bowl 59 halftime show will take place on Sunday, Feb. 9, at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans.
The Newton–Pepys problem is a probability problem concerning the probability of throwing sixes from a certain number of dice. [1] In 1693 Samuel Pepys and Isaac Newton corresponded over a problem posed to Pepys by a school teacher named John Smith. [2] The problem was: Which of the following three propositions has the greatest chance of success?