58 Facts About Sir Christopher Wren

Sir Christopher Wren was accorded responsibility for rebuilding 52 churches in the City of London after the Great Fire in 1666, including what is regarded as his masterpiece, St Paul's Cathedral, on Ludgate Hill, completed in 1710.

Sir Christopher Wren was first taught at home by a private tutor and his father.

Sir Christopher Wren spent his first eight years at East Knoyle and was educated by the Rev William Shepherd, a local clergyman.

Sir Christopher Wren's drawing was put to academic use in providing many of the anatomical drawings for the anatomy textbook of the brain, Cerebri Anatome, published by Thomas Willis, which coined the term "neurology".

However, Sir Christopher Wren became closely associated with John Wilkins, the Warden of Wadham.

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Sir Christopher Wren was there provided with a set of rooms and a stipend and required to give weekly lectures in both Latin and English.

Sir Christopher Wren continued to meet the men with whom he had frequent discussions in Oxford.

Sir Christopher Wren undoubtedly played a major role in the early life of what would become the Royal Society; his great breadth of expertise in so many different subjects helping in the exchange of ideas between the various scientists.

In 1661, Sir Christopher Wren was elected Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford, and in 1669 he was appointed Surveyor of Works to Charles II.

From 1661 until 1668 Sir Christopher Wren's life was based in Oxford, although his attendance at meetings of the Royal Society meant that he had to make periodic trips to London.

Sir Christopher Wren observed, measured, dissected, built models and employed, invented and improved a variety of instruments.

Sir Christopher Wren submitted his plans for rebuilding the city to King Charles II, although they were never adopted.

Sir Christopher Wren was personally responsible for the rebuilding of 51 churches; however, it is not necessarily true to say that each of them represented his own fully developed design.

Sir Christopher Wren was unsuccessful again in a by-election for the Oxford University constituency in 1674, losing to Thomas Thynne.

At his third attempt Sir Christopher Wren was successful, and he sat for Plympton Erle during the Loyal Parliament of 1685 to 1687.

Sir Christopher Wren retired at the general election the following year.

Sir Christopher Wren's was buried in the chancel of St Martin-in-the-Fields beside the infant Gilbert.

Sir Christopher Wren's was a mystery to Wren's friends and companions.

Sir Christopher Wren's was buried alongside Faith and Gilbert in the chancel of St Martin-in-the-Fields.

Sir Christopher Wren was never to marry again; he lived to be over 90 years old and of those years was married only nine.

In 1713, he bought the manor of Wroxall, Warwickshire, from the Burgoyne family, to which his son Sir Christopher Wren retired in 1716 after losing his post as Clerk of Works.

Sir Christopher Wren had been given a lease on the property by Queen Anne in lieu of salary arrears for building St Paul's.

Sir Christopher Wren's body was placed in the south-east corner of the crypt of St Paul's.

Sir Christopher Wren who died on Monday last in the 91st year of his age, was the only son of Dr Chr.

Sir Christopher Wren's body is to be deposited in the Great Vault under the Dome of the Cathedral of St Paul.

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Sir Christopher Wren experimented on terrestrial magnetism and had taken part in medical experiments while at Wadham College, performing the first successful injection of a substance into the bloodstream .

Sir Christopher Wren studied and improved the microscope and telescope at this time.

Sir Christopher Wren had been making observations of the planet Saturn from around 1652 with the aim of explaining its appearance.

Sir Christopher Wren's hypothesis was written up in De corpore saturni but before the work was published, Huygens presented his theory of the rings of Saturn.

Immediately Sir Christopher Wren recognised this as a better hypothesis than his own and De corpore saturni was never published.

Sir Christopher Wren directed his far-ranging intelligence to the study of meteorology: in 1662, he invented the tipping bucket rain gauge and, in 1663, designed a "weather-clock" that would record temperature, humidity, rainfall and barometric pressure.

Sir Christopher Wren published a description of an engine to create perspective drawings and he discussed the grinding of conical lenses and mirrors.

Out of this work came another of Sir Christopher Wren's important mathematical results, namely that the hyperboloid of revolution is a ruled surface.

In subsequent years, Sir Christopher Wren continued with his work with the Royal Society, although after the 1680s his scientific interests seem to have waned: no doubt his architectural and official duties absorbed more time.

Sir Christopher Wren's challenge to Halley and Hooke, for the reward of a book worth thirty shillings, was to provide, within the context of Hooke's hypothesis, a mathematical theory linking Kepler's laws with a specific force law.

Sir Christopher Wren studied other areas, ranging from agriculture, ballistics, water and freezing, light and refraction, to name only a few.

Sir Christopher Wren was a prominent man of science at the height of the Scientific Revolution.

In 1661, just months after taking his post at Oxford, Sir Christopher Wren was invited by Charles II to oversee the construction of new harbour defences at Tangier—then-newly under British control.

Sir Christopher Wren's first known foray into architecture came after his uncle, Matthew Sir Christopher Wren, Bishop of Ely, offered to finance a new chapel for Pembroke College, Cambridge.

Matthew commissioned his nephew for the design, finding the architecturally inexperienced Sir Christopher Wren to be both ideologically sympathetic and stylistically deferential.

Sir Christopher Wren produced his design in the Winter of 1662 or 1663 and the chapel was completed in 1665.

Sir Christopher Wren met Gian Lorenzo Bernini, who was "widely acknowledged by contemporaries as the greatest artist of the century".

Sir Christopher Wren was most likely at Oxford at the time, but the news, so fantastically relevant to his future, drew him at once to London.

Cathedral that Sir Christopher Wren started to build bears only a slight resemblance to the Warrant Design.

Finally in 1711 the cathedral was declared complete, and Sir Christopher Wren was paid the half of his salary that, in the hope of accelerating progress, Parliament had withheld for 14 years since 1697.

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In 1682, Sir Christopher Wren advised that the original statues of the King's Beasts on St George's Chapel, Windsor be removed.

The first large project Sir Christopher Wren designed, the Chelsea Hospital, does not entirely satisfy the eye in this respect, but met its brief with distinction and such success that even in the 21st century it fulfills its original function.

When Sir Christopher Wren promised that it would be complete within a year the King, who was conscious of his mortality, replied that " a year is a great time in my life".

Later, when James II was removed from the throne, Sir Christopher Wren took on architectural projects such as Kensington Palace and Hampton Court .

Story is widely told that the borough Council demanded that Sir Christopher Wren should insert additional columns within the covered area, in order to support the weight of the heavy building above; Sir Christopher Wren was adamant that these were not necessary.

However, there is little evidence that Sir Christopher Wren was ever involved in the design or construction of the Guildhall.

Sir Christopher Wren did not pursue his work on architectural design as actively as he had before the 1690s, although he still played important roles in a number of royal commissions.

Sir Christopher Wren resigned the former role in 1716 but held the latter until his death, approving with a wavering signature Burlington's revisions of Wren's own earlier designs for the great Archway of Westminster School.

James Anderson made the claims in his widely circulated Constitutions while many of Sir Christopher Wren's friends were still alive, but he made many highly creative claims as to the history or legends of Freemasonry.

Nevertheless, this recorded event and many old records attest the fact that Antiquity thought that Sir Christopher Wren had been its Master, at a time when it still held its minute books for the relevant years .

Evidence whether Sir Christopher Wren was a speculative freemason is the subject of the Prestonian Lecture of 2011, which concludes on the evidence of two obituaries and Aubrey's memoirs, with supporting materials, that he did indeed attend the closed meeting in 1691, probably of the Lodge of Antiquity, but that there is nothing to suggest that he was ever a Grand Officer as claimed by Anderson.

Christopher Wren appeared on the reverse of the first British £50 banknote issued in modern times.

Sir Christopher Wren appears, or is mentioned in several Restoration era novels or movies.