Christopher Wren the Younger

In 1708, he laid the last stone of the lantern which surmounts the dome of St Paul's Cathedral in the presence of his father.

He also lost his post as Clerk of Works in 1716 and thereafter retired to live as a country squire at the Wroxall Abbey estate in Warwickshire that had been acquired by his father in 1713.

[1] Wren collected documents about the life of his father, which were later published after his own death as the Parentalia by his son Stephen in 1750.

Two letters written to him by Sir Christopher while he was quite a youth, were printed in Miss Phillimore's Life (pp.

[4] His first wife was Mary, daughter of Philip Musard, jeweler of Queen Anne.