In 1655 Pepys he married Elizabeth St. Michel, the young daughter of an exiled Huguenot. The pair were apparently supported initially by their cousin, Sir Edward Montagu, later the Earl of Sandwich, into whose service he had entered. In 1660 he accompanied Montagu as secretary on the journey that returned Charles II to England. That same year, Pepys he was appointed secretary of the acts in the Office of the Navy. This appointment was important because Pepys He served the Army in some capacity for most of his life, working to improve its efficiency and ensure its integrity.
In 1662, Pepys he was appointed as one of the commissioners of Tangier, which was then occupied by the English; three years later he was appointed treasurer. When the Dutch War broke out in 1665, he was appointed Inspector General of the Office of Supply, in addition to his regular duties for the navy, and he remained in his post throughout the Great Plague of 1665, although most of the inhabitants left London. Pepys saved the Office of the Navy from the Great Fire of 1666 by destroying the buildings around it. When the Dutch war ended in 1668, the Duke of York entrusted him with the task of exonerating the navy of its mismanagement.
The presentation of Pepys before Parliament he evidently aroused his own aspirations for a bench. He was elected to Parliament in 1673 and again in 1679. In 1673 the King transferred Pepys from the Office of the Navy to the Secretary of the Admiralty. At the time of the Popish plot in 1678, Whig opponents of the Duke of York accused Pepys of giving naval secrets to the French. Pepys resigned his post and was imprisoned in the Tower in 1679, but the charges against him were unfounded, and he was vindicated and released in 1680.
After retiring from public life in 1689, he led a relatively quiet life. He published his Memoirs … of the Royal Navy in 1690. He corresponded with friends and acted as an adviser to the Navy. He died on May 26, 1703.
Pepys he is remembered today for the diary he kept for nine and a half years in the 1660s. In his diary, written in code, he recorded the significant and trivial events of his public and private worlds. Along with his impressions of his own internal situation, he recorded his thoughts on Charles II, the great plague of 1665, the great fire of 1666, the Restoration, the king’s mistresses, the Dutch war, and the Duke of York. His lack of vision caused him to suspend the diary when he was still a young man, but his intimate records of his daily life and the beginnings of the Restoration remain interesting and historically valuable.
The diary of Pepys it was not transcribed and published until 1825. The first nearly complete edition was published between 1893 and 1899, edited by HB Wheatley.