Samuel Pepys Club

On 26 May 1903, at the Garrick Club in London, a group of four men interested at various degrees in Samuel Pepys met together over dinner to celebrate the exact bicentenary of the death of the diarist.

In 1953, fifty years after its foundation, the Club established an executive committee charged with the general conduct of the affairs.

Anyone with a genuine personal interest in Pepys and his times qualifies for election on proposal by an existing member, and upon approval by the executive committee.

Membership is eclectic, ranging from bishops, historians, navy officers, and writers, to lawyers, surgeons, and academics.

Honorary ex-officio members are: At the beginning of the 21st century, the Club founded the Samuel Pepys Award, a biennal prize given for a book that "makes the greatest contribution to the understanding of Samuel Pepys, his times or his contemporaries in the interest of encouraging scholarship in this area.