Robert Harley Samuel Pepys

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# 14 Buckingham Street Standing at 14 Buckingham Street, you stand at a crossroads of English achievement spanning nearly two centuries: here, Samuel Pepys kept his legendary diary while serving as Secretary of the Admiralty, documenting both the Great Fire of 1666 and the Restoration court with th...

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14 Buckingham Street, Westminster, WC2

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In a house formerly standing on this site lived Samuel Pepys 1633-1703 diarist and Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford 1661-1724 statesman and in this house lived William Etty 1787-1849 painter and Clarkson Stanfield 1793-1867 painter