English Collectors: English Book and Manuscript Collectors, Samuel Pepys, Edward Gibbon, John Evelyn, Robert Harley (Paperback)

English Collectors: English Book and Manuscript Collectors, Samuel Pepys, Edward Gibbon, John Evelyn, Robert Harley Book Description

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 55. Chapters: English book and manuscript collectors, Samuel Pepys, Edward Gibbon, John Evelyn, Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, List of manuscripts in the Cotton library, Harry Buxton Forman, Richard de Bury, Joseph Smith, Thomas Martin of Palgrave, George Weare Braikenridge, George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer, John Warburton, Thomas James Wise, Frederick James Furnivall, George Hibbert, Humphrey Moseley, Geoffrey Keynes, Valmadonna Trust Library, Joseph Burke II, Richard Copley Christie, George Spencer-Churchill, 5th Duke of Marlborough, Henry Yates Thompson, Thomas Phillipps, Sir Robert Cotton, 1st Baronet, of Connington, Peter Copeland, Charles William Dyson Perrins, Frank Hall Standish, Michael Sadleir, John Ker, 3rd Duke of Roxburghe, Julian Marshall, Francis Wrangham, Henry Huth, Edward Brotherton, 1st Baron Brotherton, David John Chambers, Richard Rawlinson, Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode, Sydney Cockerell, John Davy Hayward, Samuel Sandars, Robert Hoblyn, Arthur Agarde, James Crossley, Colin Franklin, John Roland Abbey, Joan Rendell, Benton Fletcher, John Bagford, Sir John Boyd, 1st Baronet, John Carter, Francis Douce, Anthony Askew, Richard Heber, A. J. A. Symons, George Thomason, Quentin Keynes, Robert Shackleton, Samuel Rush Meyrick, Alan G. Thomas, Richard Pendlebury, Philip Traherne. Excerpt: Samuel Pepys FRS, MP, JP, (; 23 February 1633 - 26 May 1703) was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament who is now most famous for the diary he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man. Although Pepys had no maritime experience, he rose by patronage, hard work and his talent for administration, to be the Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under both King Charles II and subsequently King James II. His influence and reforms at the Admiralty were important in the early professionalisation...

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