In a house on this site Samuel Pepys, diarist, was born, 1632 - 1703.
The Corporation of the City of London
Ralph Stephen draws our attention to the birth date on this plaque, 1632, when Pepys was actually born 23 February 1633. He surmises that the error is due to someone forgetting to make the correction necessary after 1753 when the start of the year was moved from March to January.
EC4, Salisbury Court
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Samuel Pepys - EC4
Diarist and Secretary of the Admiralty. Â Born Salisbury Court, where his fath...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Samuel Pepys - EC4
The municipal governing body of the City of London. Officially the 'Mayor and...
At the time the address was 9 Queens Wood Avenue.
Horace Walpole, 1717-1797, man of letters, lived here.
The central, rather cottagey, building has both CHT plaques, the terracotta plaque to the left of the entrance and the war damage plaque ...
James Parkinson, 1755 - 1824, physician and geologist, lived here.
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