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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. He was a founding Fellow of the Royal Society. [1]
John Dee 17th-century English mathematician and astronomer of Welsh extraction; Sophie Dedekam (1820–1894), Norwegian composer; Helga Deen (1925–1943), Dutch/German Holocaust victim; Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863), French painter; E. M. Delafield (1890–1943), English novelist; Bernard Delvaille (1931–2006), French poet and anthologist
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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 ...
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.
He was the eldest son of Edward (or Edmund) Symonds of Black Notley, Essex, where he was born in 1617.His mother, who brought the Notley property into the family, was Anne, daughter of Joshua Draper of Braintree.
History Today. 51 (11). Bennett, Will (29 August 2003). "Code-breaker reveals a diarist to rival Pepys". The Telegraph. Aaronovitch, David (31 August 2003). "Hutton's place in history: Seventeenth-century diarist Roger Morrice casts light on how the future will regard the Kelly inquiry". The Observer. "Depths of disgust: The truth about ...