Pepys was born into relatively humble beginnings as the son of John, a tailor, and Margaret, the sister of a Whitechapel butcher.
Plaque to look out for (it took me ages to find it).
You can see a plaque in Salisbury Court on the spot where his house once stood. We start the walk in the area of Bridewell where Samuel Pepys was born on the 23rd February 1633. A suggested route for the walk below but it is self-guided so feel free to do it however you wish! With this self-guided walk of London you will walk in Samuel Pepys’ footsteps where he lived, worked and how the cataclysmic events he was witnessing affected the city. He was also, over the course of his career, a top naval administrator, MP and President of the Royal Society.Īs a person Samuel Pepys was intelligent, energetic and inquisitive but also could be brutal to his servants, quarrelsome with his wife and was an enthusiastic philanderer (very little detail is omitted in the diary). He comments on the Restoration (he actually travelled in the ship back to England with Charles II for his coronation), the Great Plague of 1665 and the Second Dutch war (1665-1667). As well as his diary being an invaluable source on the fire, it is one of the lynchpins of our understanding of life at a crucial time in London’s history (1660-1669). Most know of Samuel Pepys from his recording of the Great Fire of London in 1666 in his diary and famously burying his precious parmesan cheese in the garden to protect it from the flames.
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