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John Evelyn FRS (31 October 1620 – 27 February 1706) was an English writer, landowner, gardener, courtier and minor government official, who is now best known as a diarist.
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Pages in category "17th-century English diarists" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total. ... Robert Woodford (diarist) Y. Walter Yonge (died ...
Pages in category "17th-century diarists" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Samuel Pepys FRS (/ p iː p s / PEEPS; [1] 23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an English writer and Tory politician. He served as an official in the Navy Board and Member of Parliament, but is most remembered today for the diary he kept for almost a decade.
Robert Woodford was born at Old, Northamptonshire on 3 April 1606, a son of Robert Woodford and his wife Jane Dexter. He was educated at Brixworth and trained as an attorney by John Reading, a barrister at Inner Temple.
So he kept a diary of the marchings of the royal army from 10 April 1644 to 11 February 1646 (four notebooks now held in the British Library). [5] These were frequently quoted by county historians , and in 1859 were edited for the Camden Society by Charles Edward Long , under the title Diary of the Marches of the Royal Army during the Great ...
Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick (attributed to Edmund Ashfield). Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick (8 November 1625 – 12 April 1678) was a diarist and the seventh daughter of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, and his second wife, Catherine Fenton, only daughter of Sir Geoffrey Fenton, Principal Secretary of State for Ireland, and Alice Weston. [1]