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Samuel Pepys

[b]Samuel Pepys[/b] (23 February 1633, London, England — 26 May 1703, Clapham, Surrey, England) was a British diarist and naval administrator, [i]FRS[/i] (Fellow of the Royal Society), Chief Secretary to the Admiralty, and sixth President of the Royal Society (in 1684–1686). Pepys is best known for a detailed diary he kept between 1660 and 1669, first published in the XIX century and serving today as an invaluable historiographical source from the English Restoration period. Samuel Pepys was a lifelong bibliophile and accumulated an extensive collection of 3,000 books and manuscripts, thoroughly indexed and cataloged; some of the highlights include an Incanubula co-authored by [a5487585], sixty medieval manuscripts, and over 1,800 printed ballads (one of the finest extant collections). In 1723, [i]Pepys Library[/i] was donated to the [url=https://discogs.com/label/280159]University of Cambridge[/url].