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ON February 23 the tercentenary of the birth of Samuel Pepys was commemorated in London and at Cambridge. The London celebrations included a lecture by Mr. E. Chappell arranged by the Society for Nautical Research at the Cloth workers' Hall; an address by Mr. A. Bryant to the Women's Section of the London Municipal Society at Admiralty House, and a commemoration service at the Church of St. Olave, Hart Street, where Pepys was buried and close to where he lived and worked. The service was attended by the Lord Mayor and sheriffs of the City of London and the address was given by Prebendary Wellard, chaplain to the Pepys Club. During the service a wreath was placed on the Pepys monument. At the meeting of the Royal Society in the afternoon, the fellows stood in silence as a tribute to the memory of Pepys, and the president, Sir F. Gowland Hopkins, recalled that they met on the actual date of Pepys's birth, three hundred years ago. Though Pepys, he said, was not an investigator, it was clear his business acumen and his general interests in their problems had put him high in the estimation of his contemporaries, as he was thrice elected to the council and ultimately to the presidential chair. The references in his “Diary” to the Society showed his appreciation of the privileges of a fellow and his interest in the Society's work. The commemoration at Magdalene College, Cambridge, was attended by Sir John Simon, who proposed “The Immortal Memory of Samuel Pepys”.
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The Pepys Tercentenary. Nature 131, 299 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131299a0
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