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	Sir Christopher Wren - LoveToKnow 1911
		Wren also designed a colonnade to enclose a large piazza forming a clear space round the church, somewhat after the fashion of Bernini's colonnade in front of St Peter's, but space in the city was too valuable to admit of this.
		Wren was an enthusiastic admirer of Bernini's designs, and visited Paris in 1665 in order to see him and his proposed scheme for the rebuilding of the Louvre.
		Wren (D.C.L. from 1660) was knighted in 1673, and was elected president of the Royal Society in 1681.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Sir_Christopher_Wren (944 words)

	Sir Christopher Wren
		Wren, Sir Christopher (1632-1723), architect, mathematician, and astronomer, was born at East Knoyle, Wiltshire, on 20 October 1632, the only surviving son of Christopher Wren DD (1589-1658), at that time rector of East Knoyle and later dean of Windsor, and his wife, Mary, the daughter of Richard Cox of Fonthill, Wiltshire.
		Wren's understanding of structures and of the classical language of architecture, his empirical and innovative attitude to prototypes, and his regard for the particulars of his brief were all manifested in a more substantial work, the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, proposed and ultimately paid for by Archbishop Gilbert Sheldon, formerly warden of All Souls.
		Wren now envisaged a cruciform church on the scale and orientation of the old one; the surviving plan (Wren drawings, All Souls College, Oxford, II.42) retains the traditional long nave of medieval cathedrals, with a large dome at the crossing and a re-creation of Jones's portico.
	pasta.cantbedone.org /pages/VWVMzu.htm (13192 words)

	Christopher Wren
		Just before the fire Wren was asked by Charles II to prepare a scheme for the restoration of the old St Paul's.
		Wren also designed a colonnade to enclose a large piazza forming a clear space around the church, somewhat after the fashion of Bernini's colonnade in front of St. Peter's, but space in the city was too valuable to admit of this.
		Wren (D.C.L. from 1660) was knighted in 1673, and was elected president of the Royal Society in 1680.
	www.nndb.com /people/829/000084577 (927 words)

	The Obituary of Elizabeth Wren Beaton O'Leary
		Her father was Michael Wren, one of the first railroad contractors in the country, and who had contracts in the construction of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad.
		Wren' s business required him to follow "the course of empires", and in 1831 the family moved to Pittsburg, where new contracts called him, and thence in 1835 to St. Louis.
		Matthew Beaton, for many years one of Galena's leading business men and most esteemed citizens, a year ago took up his home in Rogers Park, Chicago, and his one sister, the companion of her mother lifelong, will henceforth make her home with him.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /hconnors/Beaton/EWBOObituary.html (1303 words)

	Matthew Wren at AllExperts
		Matthew Wren (December 3, 1585–April 24, 1667) was an influential English clergyman and scholar.
		To fulfil this vow, he chose to pay for a new Chapel for Pembroke College, and had it built by his nephew Christopher Wren — one of his first buildings, consecrated in 1665.
		Matthew Wren also led the movement to rebuild St Paul's Cathedral after it had been damaged by the Puritans, and again his nephew accomplished the task.
	en.allexperts.com /e/m/ma/matthew_wren.htm (308 words)

	Wren
		Christopher Wren senior was installed as Dean on 4 April 1635 and there the young Christopher was brought up by his father and by an older sister who slotted into the role of a mother to him.
		Matthew Wren, who was by this time the Bishop of Ely, was imprisoned in the Tower of London for eighteen years.
		Wren, despite the tragedy in his personal life at this time and his great disappointment at the reaction to his plans for St Paul's, set to work again and produced a third design based on a Latin Cross with a large dome.
	www.educ.fc.ul.pt /icm/icm2003/icm14/Wren.htm (2770 words)

	SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN (... - Online Information article about SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN (... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		king, this design was happily abandoned—much to Wren's disgust; and he prepared another scheme with a similar treatment of a dome crowned by a spire, which in 1675 was ordered to be carried out.
		Bernini showed his design to Wren, but would not let him copy it, though, as he said, he " would have given his skin " to be allowed to do so.
		MATTHEW, ST (MaOOaior or MarOaIos, probably a shortened form of the Hebrew equivalent to Theodorus)
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /WIL_YAK/WREN_SIR_CHRISTOPHER_1632_1723_.html (1846 words)

	CHRISTOPHER WREN \| FREEMASONRY
		Christopher Wren was born in the Wiltshire village of East Knoyle on 20th.October 1632, the son of Dr.Christopher Wren, rector of that parish and Mary Cox, the daughter of a local landowner.
		Wren’s foray into politics seems to be uncharacteristically risking in view of the train of events, indeed he seems to have lent himself to the King’s attempt to stack Parliament with High Church Anglicans and Catholics.
		Wren does not seem to have suffered any disadvantage from his apparent allegiance to James II, for he was the Member of Parliament for Old Windsor in 1789 and 1790, he kept his job and was commissioned to design large extensions to Hampton Court Palace.
	www.freemasons-freemasonry.com /christopher_wren_freemasonry.html (9095 words)

	The Galileo Project
		Wren is remembered of course as England's great architect; he also wrote five unpublished commentaries on the theory of architecture.
		Wren filled a lot of academic commissions--including a new quadrangle and later a chapel for Trinity College, Oxford (Ralph Bathurst, President of the College), the library for Trinity College, Cambridge (Isaac Barrow, Master).
		Wren managed to beg off, but military engineering bulks fairly large in the Oxford topics, and he was consulted on the works at Tangier.
	galileo.rice.edu /Catalog/NewFiles/wren.html (1682 words)

	RootsWeb: WREN-L Bishop Matthew WREN, Christopher HIGGINSON, 1600's
		Christopher was said to be a kinsman of Matthew WREN, Bishop of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, but I have not disovered the relationship........
		"Parentalia" (Memoirs of the Family of Wrens) was compiled by Christopher Wren, son of the famous architect, Sir Christopher Wren, who was a nephew of Bishop Matthew Wren...published in London in 1750 by Stephen Wren, son of the compiler.
		"Matthew Wren, D.D., 1585-1667, a prominent clergyman of the Church of England, elected Bishop of Hereford 5 Dec. 1634 and consecrated Archbishop Laud 2 Mar. 1634/5 was elected Bishop of Norwich 10 Nov. 1635, and was translated to the See of Ely in April 1638.
	archiver.rootsweb.com /th/read/WREN/2005-03/1110254810 (492 words)

	Christopher Wren - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wren was born at East Knoyle, Wiltshire, on 20 October 1632, the only surviving son of Christopher Wren DD (1589-1658), at that time the rector of East Knoyle and later dean of Windsor.
		Wren was personally responsible of the rebuilding of 51 churches; however, it is not necessarily true to say that each of them represented his own fully developed design.
		By the time the Royal Society was founded, Wren’s fame in science had already grown.' As a fellow of All Souls, he constructed a transparent beehive for scientific observation; he began observing the moon, which was subsequent to the invention of micrometers for the telescope.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christopher_Wren (3906 words)

	Christopher Wren - architect and astronomer : National Maritime Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Wren was born in 1632 in the village of East Knoyle in Wiltshire, where his father was Rector.
		At a time when architecture was considered to be a part-time interest for wealthy and educated gentlemen, Wren was one of the few architects to have a sound knowledge of the structure of buildings.
		Wren's original scheme was to build a three-sided arrangement of buildings incorporating a block by James Webb which had been intended as a new palace for King Charles II until the project ran out of funds.
	www.nmm.ac.uk /server/show/conWebDoc.179 (1449 words)

	Wren biography
		After this, and still before entering university, Wren was recommended to Oughtred as an appropriate person to translate into Latin his work on the mathematics of sundials.
		Wren's mathematical work now exists, if at all, in detached fragments rescued from oblivion, some in print, and a little more in bare outline in the published work of contemporaries, especially Wallis.
		Work on the logarithmic spiral, which had been rectified by Wallis in the late 1650s, led Wren to note that it was possible to consider an area preserving transformation which would transform a cone into a solid logarithmic spiral.
	www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk /Biographies/Wren.html (2878 words)

	Bloomsbury.com - Research centre
		His earliest buildings are Pembroke College Chapel, Cambridge (1663, commissioned by his uncle, Bishop Matthew Wren), the first completely Classical Chapel in either Cambridge or Oxford, and the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford (1663-9) which incorporates, in the interior, an ingenious solution to the problem of spanning large interior space without visible supports.
		Wren's great opportunity came in the wake of the 1666 Fire of London.
		The result is a compromise between Wren's desire for a Greek cross plan and the clergy's demand for a more traditional Latin cross type.
	www.bloomsburymagazine.com /ARC/detail.asp?entryid=101498 (444 words)

	Christopher HIGGINSON, Bishop Matthew WREN, 1600's
		Matthew WREN, Bishop of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, b 1585, Eng - d 1667, Eng.....
		"Parentalia" (Memoirs of the Family of Wrens) was compiled by Christopher Wren, son of the famous architect, Sir Christopher Wren, who was a nephew of Bishop Matthew Wren...published in London in 1750 by Stephen Wren, son of the compiler.
		"Matthew Wren, D.D., 1585-1667, a prominent clergyman of the Church of England, elected Bishop of Hereford 5 Dec. 1634 and consecrated Archbishop Laud 2 Mar. 1634/5 was elected Bishop of Norwich 10 Nov. 1635, and was translated to the See of Ely in April 1638.
	www.jenforum.com /wren/messages/1289.html (504 words)

	Descendants of Unknown Wren
		Matthew Wren, born 23 December 1586 in St Peter Cheap, London.; died 24 April 1667.
		Wren, born 25 October 1745; died 16 December 1797 in Wroxall, Warwickshire..
		Matthew Wren, born 02 August 1748 in Wroxall, Warwickshire.; died 13 February 1770 in Wroxall, Warwickshire..
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~billburgoyne/unknown_wren.htm (1058 words)

	Matthew Wren: Ely Episcopal Theologians in the Seventeenth Century
		Matthew Wren: Ely Episcopal Theologians in the Seventeenth Century
		Matthew Wren, the uncle of the great architect, Christopher Wren, was born in 1585 and died in 1667.
		It is to Wren that we probably owe the change from 'congregation' to 'church' in a number of prayers, as well as the polished form of the Trinity Sunday collect, so that Cranmer's abstract noun ('steadfastness') and passive verb ('be defended') are replaced with a smoother result.
	archive.ely.anglican.org /history/talk19990209/wren.html (216 words)

	The Duane Family
		Matthew Duane died on February 18, 1846, the same day as his grandson and namesake, Matthew Beaton, was born.
		Matthew Beaton, age 14, a "store porter," was living with Davies M. Spratt, age 34, a merchant; Eliza Spratt, age 26, and Harry Spratt, age 2.
		Matthew Beaton's biography mentions that the owner of the "St. Louis Store" when he first began to work there was "Porter and Spratt." Catherine Beaton, age 12, was living with John Maloy, age 23; Mary Maloy, age 22; and Clara Maloy, age 6 months.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /hconnors/Beaton/Duane.html (699 words)

	Matthew Wren - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Matthew Wren (December 3, 1585–April 24, 1667) was an influential English clergyman and scholar.
		To fulfil this vow, he chose to pay for a new Chapel for Pembroke College, and had it built by his nephew Christopher Wren — one of his first buildings, consecrated in 1665.
		Matthew Wren also led the movement to rebuild St Paul's Cathedral after it had been damaged by the Puritans, and again his nephew accomplished the task.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Matthew_Wren (287 words)

	Sir Christopher Wren: Architects and Scientists: The Twickenham Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		When he was relieved of his office in 1718, at the age of 86, he had held the post for nearly 50 years and he retired to the house for the remainder of his life.
		Wren was set to work on the plans and demolition started little more than a month after their visit.
		The main parts of the surviving palace built by Wren are Fountain Court, the East Front, the South Front, the King’s and Queen’s Apartments and the Orangery.
	www.twickenham-museum.org.uk /detail.asp?ContentID=246 (591 words)

	Early Wren's Catholic ???? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Matthew Wren, Bishop of Ely, was "personally apponted" by King James 1, as Chaplin to Price Charles 1, in 1621.
		I am thus convinced that King James 1, gave England the "Anglican" faith, and bible (published in 1611), for the KJV is the Anglican Version - and the Anglican Church is "The Church of England".
		Thus, it is the Wren's that influence The Royalty of the time, and I believe, that it was Matthew's zeal, that inspired King James 1st to such a point that we now enjoy the Bible in English.
	genforum.genealogy.com /cgi-bin/print.cgi?wren::1072.html (207 words)

	The Builder Magazine - January 1930
		Wren took a prominent part in the formation of the Royal Society, and after the King gave his approval on December 5, 1660, the drafting of the preamble of the Charter was entrusted to him.
		Nineteen years later Wren was dismissed from its superintendence, and the Cathedral was reported as finished, as no doubt it was in the main essentials.
		Perhaps the reason why Wren was not definitely said to be a Mason in the first Book of Constitutions of 1723, was that for many years prior to that he had suffered the criticism of many young and even middle-aged fellow architects, who were jealous of his long monopoly of the principal architectural commissions.
	www.phoenixmasonry.org /the_builder_1930_january.htm (13782 words)

	Match Summaries
		Matthew Wren dispossessed the keeper and was about to slide the ball into an unguarded net when his legs were chopped from behind.
		It appeared to the naked eye that Matthew Wren took the ball clean but the referee blew his whistle and showed a yellow card to Matthew's and the crowds amazement.
		Skipper, Matthew Wren had a great game in both defence and attack and Adrian Poli seemed to come to life towards the end grabbing himself a second half hat-trick.
	www.angelfire.com /sports/thebundies/Summaries.html (3785 words)

	Wren family history
		The Wren family of Billy Hall and Binchester, County Durham, appear to have arrived from Denmark sometime around the 14th century [DNB].
		A provisional outline of the tree for the descendants of William Wren of Billy Hall in County Durham is attached, although several areas of this (generally noted with a [?]) remain uncertain or even speculative, and are the subject of ongoing research.
		Malcolm Wren has reviewed, cross-checked and synythesised much of the published material, also drawing on other subsidiary sources, and produced an extensive unpublished summary work on the family.
	www.bedfordpark.net /genealogy/wren/binchester.htm (430 words)

	WREN - Tipton St Matthews
		St Matthews Church on Dudley Road in Tipton was built in 1876 and is a Grade II listed building.
		Matthew Cox, Wren Project Manager for the West Midlands, commented: “The restoration project has carried out vital work to preserve a piece of Tipton’s cultural heritage.
		Projects applying for grants from WREN are assessed by an individual panel of locally based experts in each county for their suitability, sustainability and community benefit and the Landfill Tax credits of Waste Recycling Group have, to date, boosted over 3000 individual projects across the UK with well over £50 million in funding.
	www.wren.org.uk /news/archive/tipton-st-matthews (277 words)

	The Wren
		Whoever tried to steal wren's eggs or baby wrens would find their house struck by lightning and their hands would shrivel up.
		As an important Kingship symbol, the sacrifice of the Wren provided a substitute for the sacrifice of the King himself to ensure the health and renewal of the land.
		In Ireland, the Wren was ritually hunted every St. Stephen's Day and carried in procession by the "Wren Boys"; and a number of British folk songs also refer to the ritual hunting of the wren, including the song known as the "Cutty Wren".
	www.advancenet.net /~jscole/wren.htm (926 words)

	Wren family history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		A second proposal is that William was the 1674 son of Nicholas Wren (1631-1701) and his 1670 wife Margaret Bell (1650-1702), the daughter of Henry and Eliza Bell.
		There is evidence that another early Virginia family, the Higginsons, claimed kinship to Matthew Wren, Bishop of Ely, and various Wrens appear in Virginia immigration passenger lists in the 1630's to 1650's, including a Nicholas in 1652-53.
		All of this seems to point to the possibility that Nicholas arrived in Virginia in the mid-17th century, possibly with his parents and other kinsmen, and was a cousin of the family of Sir Christopher.
	www.bedfordpark.net /genealogy/wren/william_of_illinois.htm (361 words)

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