Chandos Wren-Hoskyns BA, JP, DL (15 February 1812 – 28 November 1876) was an English landowner, agriculturist, politician and author.
After his first wife's death in 1842, he married in 1846 Anna Fane, daughter of Charles Milner Ricketts.
Educated at Shrewsbury, followed by Balliol College, Oxford, Wren-Hoskyns was called to the Bar at Inner Temple in 1838.
Writing in the preface to A Short Enquiry into the History of Agriculture in Ancient Medieval and Modern Times (1849), he noted pertinently: "English publishers say, despondingly, that agriculturists are not a reading class.
'[2] Not all his views are generally shared in the 21st century: he described hedgerows as "hideous and useless strongholds of roots, weeds, birds and vermin.