Wiliam Weller Pepys - a Later Pepys
Biography
Birth: 1740
Death: Jun 02, 1825
Son of William Pepys (ca. 1698-1743) and Hannah Weller Russell (d. ca. 1760). Married (1777) to Elizabeth Dowdeswell, daughter of Right Hon. William Dowdeswell of Pull Court (d. 1775). Educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford. Master in the High Court of Chancery. An intimate friend of James Macdonald. A sometime friend of Henry and Hester Thrale. Pepys was created a baronet in 1801.
One of William and Elizabeth's sons, Charles Christopher Pepys, became Solicitor General (1834), High Commisioner of the Great Seal (1835) and Lord High Chancellor (1836-41 and 1846-50).
Also known as
- 1st Baronet of Cottenham
Life with James Boswell
Boswell met William Pepys in the company of James Macdonald during his visit to the latter in Oxford, April 23-26, 1764. Boswell seems to have been erroneus in his claim in Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763 that Pepys had a Devonshire connection.
Recommended literature
Not a lot of litterature about William Weller Pepys is available. It is possible, however, to find rather inexpensive editions of A.C.C. Gaussens A Later Pepys (The Correspondence of Sir William Weller Pepys) via the AbeBooks used books search engine. Included is his correspondence with, among many others, Sir James Macdonald.
Be sure not to confuse him with the much better known Samuel Pepys, Boswell's predecessor as a master diarist, and a distant relation of William Pepys'.
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William Weller Pepys is mentioned in:
- London Journal 1762-1763
