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Richard Luckett, historian, music critic and Librarian of Pepys Library in Cambridge – obituary
He lectured in three different faculties, ranged from the Russian Civil War to early instruments, was skilled at punting, and tickled trout
Richard Luckett: unassuming scholarliness
Credit: Granville Davies
Richard Luckett,who has died aged 75, was for 30 years Samuel Pepys’s Librarian at Magdalene College, Cambridge.
The diarist and eyewitness to the Great Fire of London is famous for chronicling the life of a young man all about town between 1660 and 1669. Less well-known is the Mr Pepys, MP, of later years, who served as Secretary to the Admiralty and President of the Royal Society, and who as a collector assembled 3,000 volumes of printed books and manuscripts, intended as a conspectus of human knowledge.
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