Samuel Pepys (1633-1703), English diarist and civil servant, best remembered for his Diary kept between 1660 and 1609, but who, as Secretary of the Navy (1673-1689) reformed the Royal Navy into the modern and professional force which ruled the oceans.
Pepys kept his Diary daily, written in code, between 1660 and the failure of his eyesight in 1609. He recorded intimate details of both his public and private life. Pepys' diary was not deciphered and published until 1825.
He bequethed his library and his journals to Magdalene College, Cambridge.
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