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Christopher Wren

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Profession
Architect
Died
Feb 25, 1723
Zodiac
Libra
Born in
England
About
Rebuilt 52 churches in London following the Great Fire in 1666, including St. Paul's Cathedral on Ludgate Hill. He was also responsible for the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, the south front of Hampton Court Palace, and the oldest academic building still in continuous use in the United States: the College of William and Mary's Wren Building.
Family
His parents were Mary Cox and Christopher Wren, Sr., who was the rector of East Knoyle and Dean of Windsor. He married his childhood neighbor, Faith Coghill, in 1669, with whom he fathered two children: Gilbert and Christopher. His wife died in 1675. He then remarried in 1677 to Jane Fitzwilliam, William FitzWilliam, 2nd Baron FitzWilliam's daughter, with whom he had Jane and William. She died in 1680.

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