Samuel Pepys [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… of sociability across his life. People > 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 … had been born the son of a London tailor in 1633 and became Clerk of the Acts to the Navy Board in 1660, thanks to the patronage of his first cousin once removed, the Earl of Sandwich. On this he observed to a friend that ‘chance without … officeholders. Drinking and gaming were fun ways to pass the time, but Pepys was also collecting news to send to his patron Mountagu, who was in the country. In the turmoil of early 1660, with riots in streets and no stable government at …
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