The College boasts a portrait of the famous diarist by Sir Peter Lely, which hangs in the Hall.

One of the more inspired tacks taken in the Morgan show is bringing together diarists both famous and obscure, and nowhere is this integration more evident than in the accounts of war.

Its greatest asset is the Pepys Library, housing the magnificent collection of books the famous mid-17th-century diarist bequeathed to his old college.

He married Eleanor of Volvire, Marchioness of Ruffec; they had a daughter, Charlotte, mother of the Duc de Saint-Simon, famous diarist.

James Boswell, the famous diarist and biographer of Samuel Johnson, was a grandson of Euphemia Cochrane, sister of Basil's father Thomas and his namesake Commissioner Basil Cochrane.

John Aubrey, the famous diarist, described the great stones which then lay around the scene 'scattered as the sower does his seed'.

In 1647 Mary Browne, daughter and heir of Sir Richard Browne married John Evelyn, the famous diarist, who hailed from Wotton in Surrey.

Q: Today the Senate discusses what to do with its most famous diarist.

His godmother, the famous diarist Mary Delaney , said the marriage was happy, despite his lack of financial sense and her " want of judgment".

He settled down as a merchant in Livorno for four years, during which time he knew John Evelyn, great-grandson of the famous diarist.