Samuel Pepys

Known for: Writing

Born: February 22, 1633 in Salisbury Court, London, England [now UK] - Died: May 25, 1703

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.