Samuel Pepys
English naval administrator and diarist whose diary covers 1660 to 1669.
PersonSources & confidence: High confidence
Checked 8 October 2026 · AI-assisted review
Identity and authorship of the diary; the entry describing Downing.
- Wikidata entity identity and cross-references
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- Project Gutenberg: The Diary of Samuel Pepys, complete
Entry of 12 March 1661/62 describing Downing's conduct in the arrest of the regicides.
- History of government blog: The Changing Face, and Faces, of Number 10 Downing Street
Describes Pepys as Downing's clerk.
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Administrator in the Navy Office and, early in the diary, a clerk under Downing at the Exchequer. The essay quotes his description of Downing without linking the diary.
In the essays
- Somewhere Worth Living
Read the essay
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Record history
Catalogue source: knowledge/people/samuel-pepys.md
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