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Christopher Wren

Parents

Father: Christopher Wren * 17.09.1589
Mother: Mary Cox

Marriages

Marriage I:
Faith Coghill

Marriage II:
Jane FitzWilliam

Children

Children from Marriage I:

Children from Marriage II:

Biographical Notes

Architect, designer, astronomer and geometer.

Wren designed more the fifty churches in London , including St Paul's Cathedral as well as many secular buildings.

Founder of the Royal Society and its president from 1680 to 1682.

Chronology

28.11.1660
At Gresham College, 12 men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decide to found what is later known as the Royal Society.