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  1. Christopher Wren
    Christopher WrenEnglish architect
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  2. Born30 October 1632 [O.S. 20 October] · East Knoyle, Wiltshire, England
    Died8 March 1723 [O.S. 25 February] · (aged 90) · St James's, London, England
    Political partyWhig
    Life and works

    Wren was born in East Knoyle in Wiltshire, the only surviving son of Christopher Wren the Elder and Mary Cox, the only child of the Wiltshire squire Robert Cox from Fonthill Bishop. Christopher Sr. was, at that time, the rector o… See more

    Marriage to Faith Coghill Wren

    Wren's career was well established by 1669, and it may have been his appointment as Surveyor of the King's Works early that year that persuaded him that he could finally afford to marry. In 1669, the 37-yea… See more

    Marriage to Jane Fitzwilliam

    In 1677, 17 months after the death of his first wife, Wren remarried, this time to Jane Fitzwilliam, daughter of William FitzWilliam, 2nd Baron FitzWilliam, and his wife Jane Perry, the daughter of a prosperous London merchant. … See more

    Scientific career

    One of Wren's friends, Robert Hooke, scientist and architect and a fellow Westminster Schoolboy, said of him "Since the time of Archimedes there scarce ever met in one man in so great perfection such a mechanic… See more

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