A stunning new
Samuel Pepys [pounds sterling]2 coin has launched
If
Samuel Pepys were alive today he would, of course, be a blogger.
Samuel Pepys was born the son of a tailor and educated as a scholarship boy at St Paul's School and then at Cambridge.
Sir William Paxton, an eighteenth-century merchant venturer, built a fine house (by
Samuel Pepys Cockerell) and made a nearly 600 acre landscaped park in the gentle curves of the Taff valley near Carmarthen.
His Saturday columns imitated the language and style of
Samuel Pepys' diary, and Adams is credited with a renewal of interest in Pepys.
Passages from the Diary of
Samuel Pepys. Berkeley: University of
Among Adams's books are Tobogganing on Parnassus (1911), The Conning Tower Book (1926), The Second Conning Tower Book (1927), The Diary of Our Own
Samuel Pepys (1935), and Nods and Becks (1944).
Samuel Pepys, who was admitted to the society in 1665 and later became its president, has a number of references to its meetings and its experiments in his famous diary.
Diarist
Samuel Pepys will also be honoured, 350 years after his last entry, with a PS2 coin to commemorate his influential documentation of events such as the Great Fire of London and the Plague.
1666: The first waistcoat was worn by King Charles II, according to diarist
Samuel Pepys.
Later, the 17th century diarist
Samuel Pepys wrote about how "being full of wind and out of order" he called somewhere for a biscuit.
It must be noted in
Samuel Pepys' time the many dialects posed a problem for understanding, so it was sorted out.