Samuel Pepys [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… Hayls, ‘Samuel Pepys’, © National Portrait Gallery, NPG 211, 1666. Résumé Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) made a remarkable social ascent to become a powerful naval administrator with ear of two successive kings. His calculated approach to … > Art and Literature People > Politics Mots-clés Diaries Family Hospitality Navy Patronage Samuel Pepys’s impressive social rise, chronicled in his diary of the 1660s, owed much to his strategic approach to sociability. Pepys had been … awarding navy contracts. The connections Pepys established at the Royal Exchange, Whitehall , and Westminster Hall were networks which supplied him with a wealth of foreign, local, court and city news. This allowed him to widen his influence …
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