Samuel Pepys kept from 1660 until 1669 was first published in the 19th century and is one of the most important primary sources for the English Restoration period. It provides a combination of personal revelation and eyewitness accounts of great events, such as the Great Plague of London, the Second Dutch War, and the Great Fire of London. Pepys was born in Salisbury Court, Fleet Street, London on 23 February 1633, the son of John Pepys (1601–1680), a tailor, and Margaret Pepys ("née" Kite; died 1667), daughter of a Whitechapel butcher. His great uncle Talbot Pepys was Recorder and briefly Member of
Samuel Pepys Club and academics. Honorary "ex-officio" members are: At the beginning of the 21st century, the Club founded the "Samuel Pepys Award", a biennal prize given for a book that "makes the greatest contribution to the understanding of Samuel Pepys, his times or his contemporaries in the interest of encouraging scholarship in this area." It was first presented in 2003 to mark the centenary of the Club and the tercentenary of Pepys's death. The first recipient was Claire Tomalin for her book "Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self". Samuel Pepys Club The Samuel Pepys Club is a London club founded in 1903 to