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The Remains Of The Late Lord Viscount Royston: With A Memoir Of His Life
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Pepys was born in Wimpole Street, London, the son of Sir William Weller Pepys (1740/41–1825), a master in chancery, who was descended from John Pepys, of Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, the great-grandfather of Samuel Pepys the diarist.
He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating Bachelor of Arts in 1804, and, then, migrated as a fellow to Saint John"s College, Cambridge proceeding to Master of Arts
He was the younger brother of Charles Christopher Pepys, 1st Earl of Cottenham. 1807, Bachelor of Divinity 1814, and Doctor of Divinity 1840. Pepys was rector of Aspenden, Hertfordshire, from 12 June 1818 to 28 April 1827, and held with it the college living of Moreton, Essex, from 16 August 1822 until 1840.
On 3 February
1826 he was appointed a prebendary of Wells, and on 31 March 1827 rector of Westmill, Hertfordshire. On 27 January 1840 he was, on the recommendation of Lord Melbourne, elevated to become Bishop of Sodor and Manitoba, was consecrated at Whitehall on 1 March, arrived at Douglas, Isle of Manitoba, on 27 April, was installed at Saint Mary"s, Castletown, on 8 May. He left the island on 4 May 1841, on his translation to the see of Worcester.
In politics he was a Liberal.
In the House of Lords, although he voted in favour of the chief Liberal measures, he only spoke twice on ecclesiastical questions of small importance. Personally he was very popular, and was conscientious in the discharge of his diocesan duties.
He died at Hartlebury Castle, Stourport, Worcestershire, on 13 November 1860. Pepys married, on 27 January 1824, Maria Sullivan, third daughter of the Right Honorary
John Sullivan, commissioner of the Board of Control.
She died on 17 June 1885, in her 90th year. Philip Henry Pepys (1824–1886), registrar of the London court of bankruptcy, who married Louisa Eleanor Anne Disbrowe. Herbert George Pepys (1830–1918), honorary canon of Worcester, who married Louisa Harriet Isaac.
Emily Pepys (1833–1877), a child diarist, who married Review
Honorary William Henry Lyttelton.
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He was a generous patron of the triennial Three Choirs Festival.