Sūn Fǔ 孫甫 (998–1057), zì Zhīhàn 之翰. Native of Yángdí 陽翟 (modern Yúzhōu, Hénán). Jìnshì of Tiānshèng 5 (1027). A close associate of Fàn Zhòngyān 范仲淹 and a participant in the Qìnglì (1041–48) reform circle; outspoken in remonstrating on imperial conduct (shèngdé 聖德) and on government finance, with extant memorials preserved in his Sòngshǐ biography (j. 295) and in the early-Sòng Sòng Cháo zhū chén zòuyì 宋朝諸臣奏議.
He served as Right Remonstrator (Yòu zhèngyán 右正言) under Rénzōng, was promoted to Lecturer at the Tiānzhāng Pavilion (Tiānzhānggé dàizhì 天章閣待制), and appointed Hébĕi Fiscal Intendant (Hébĕi zhuǎnyùn shǐ 河北轉運使) in Kāngdìng 1 (1040), at the height of the SòngXià border crisis. He concurrently served as Reader-in-Waiting (shìdú 侍讀) and reached the substantive rank of Vice-Director of the Bureau of Punishments (Xíngbù lángzhōng 刑部郎中). Both Zēng Gǒng’s funerary epitaph and Ōuyáng Xiū’s biographical xíngzhuàng are preserved (and were appended to the KR2o0004 Tángshǐ lùnduàn in its Sòng circulation).
Sūn’s lifework was the Tángshǐ jì 唐史記 (also titled Táng jì 唐紀), a 75-juan annalistic recasting of the Jiù Tángshū in Chūnqiū moral form, begun in Kāngdìng 1 (1040) and completed in Jiāyòu 1 (1056); after his death the manuscript was sequestered in the imperial palace and disappeared from public circulation, but his nephew Sūn Chá 孫察 transmitted a copy to Sīmǎ Guāng for use as a Zīzhì tōngjiàn 資治通鑑 source. Only the appended block of 92 moral verdicts survives independently as KR2o0004 Tángshǐ lùnduàn 唐史論斷. The Sòngshǐ biography in j. 295. CBDB id 15744.