The son of John Pepys, a tailor, and Margaret Kite Pepys, the sister of a butcher, Samuel Pepys was born in London on 23 February 1633. The fifth of eleven children, he was the eldest of the three that survived to adulthood. He attended Huntington Grammar School and then St. Paul's School, where he undoubtedly studied Greek and Hebrew as well as Latin. The lack in his library of books in Greek or Hebrew suggests that he did not make much progress in these first two languages, though he became fluent in French and Spanish and perhaps Dutch. On 21 June 1650 he entered Trinity Hall, Cambridge, as a scholarship student, but on 1 October he transferred to Magdalene College, a decision that would influence the final disposition of his library.
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