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Christopher Wren (1675–1747), was a Member of Parliament, and the son of the architect Sir Christopher Wren and his first wife, Faith Coghill, daughter of Sir John Coghill of Bletchingdon. He was educated at Eton and Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, which he entered in 1691, but left without a degree. In the year 1708, he laid the last stone of the lantern which surmounts the dome of St Paul's Cathedral, in the presence of his father.
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Member of Parliament
He represented Windsor British general election in 1713 and Parliament during the periods of 1713–15 and Officially Return as Member. of Parliament by 29, 37.
Articles
His collected documents which form Parentalia has published by his son Stephen in 1750, its dedicated to Arthur Onslow, Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom).Two letters written to him by Sir Christopher while he was quite a youth, has printed as Miss Phillimore s Life (pp. 282, 302),that shows their relations to one another were of an affectionate character.The younger Christopher was also a Numismatist of some repute (Hearne, Collections, ed. Doble, ii. 264), and he published Numismatum Antiquorum Sylloge (London, 4to)in 1708
Personal
His first wife was Mary, daughter of Philip Musard, jeweler of Queen Anne. His second wife, Constance, daughter of Sir Thomas Middleton, and widow of Sir Roger Burgoyne, Bart.,had died on 23 May 1734 (Gent. Mag. 1734, p. 275). Christopher died on 24 Aug. 1747 (Gent. Mag. 1747, p. 447; Letters of Eminent Lit. Men, Camden Soc. p. 346).His portrait, engraved by Faber, forms the frontispiece of the ‘Parentalia.’
Wren was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1693.