Christopher Wren (priest)

Christopher Wren
Christopher Wren
Born	17 September 1589 (in Julian calendar)
Died	29 May 1658/59
Occupation	Rector, chaplain
Children	Christopher Wren
Position held	Dean of Windsor

Christopher Wren B.D. (1589 – 29 May 1658/59) was Dean of Windsor from 1635 until his death.[1]

Family

He was the son of Francis Wren, citizen and mercer of London,[2] and Suzanna Wiggington. His father Francis Wren was the only son of Cuthbert Wren, of Monk's-Kirby, in the county of Warwick, second son of William Wren, of Sherborne-House and of Billy-Hall in the bishopric of Durham.[3] He was descended from an ancient family which came originally from Denmark.[4]

He was the brother of the preceding Dean of Windsor, Matthew Wren.

He married Mary Cox, and their son was the architect Christopher Wren.

Career

He was educated at Merchant Taylors School and St John’s College, Cambridge and graduated BA in 1609, MA in 1613, BD in 1620.

He was appointed:

Chaplain to Bishop Lancelot Andrewes
Chaplain to King Charles I
Rector of Fonthill, Wiltshire 1620
Rector of East Knoyle 1623
Dean of Wolverhampton 1639
Rector of Great Haseley 1639

He was appointed Dean of Windsor in 1635. When Parliamentary forces occupied Windsor Castle, he refused to give the keys of the Chapel to Captain Fogg. Captain Fogg broke open the treasury and plundered it. Wren managed to preserve the records of the Order of the Garter, and King Edward III’s sword.

Notes

Fasti Wyndesorienses, May 1950. S. L. Ollard. Published by the Dean and Canons of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle
Mathew David (1948). The Social Structure In Caroline England.
Wren, Christopher (1750). Parentalia Or Memoirs of the Family of the Wrens Viz. of Mathew Bishop of Ely, Christopher Dean of Windsor ... But Chiefly of --- Surveyor-general of the Royal Buildings ... Now Published by Stephen Wren. Osborn.
Crabb, George (1833). Universal Historical Dictionary: Or, Explanation of the Names of Persons and Places in the Departments of Biblical, Political, and Ecclesiastical History, Mythology, Heraldry, Biography, Bibliography, Geography, and Numismatics. Baldwin and Cradock, and J. Dowding.

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[1] Fasti Wyndesorienses, May 1950. S. L. Ollard. Published by the Dean and Canons of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle

[2] Mathew David (1948). The Social Structure In Caroline England.

[3] Wren, Christopher (1750). Parentalia Or Memoirs of the Family of the Wrens Viz. of Mathew Bishop of Ely, Christopher Dean of Windsor ... But Chiefly of --- Surveyor-general of the Royal Buildings ... Now Published by Stephen Wren. Osborn.

[4] Crabb, George (1833). Universal Historical Dictionary: Or, Explanation of the Names of Persons and Places in the Departments of Biblical, Political, and Ecclesiastical History, Mythology, Heraldry, Biography, Bibliography, Geography, and Numismatics. Baldwin and Cradock, and J. Dowding.