He was fatally injured accompanying the duke at the Battle of Solebay in 1672 and died on his return to Greenwich.
[3] He was a prominent investor in The African Company and therefore both a beneficiary and supporter of the transatlantic slave trade.
[5] He wrote: J. G. A. Pocock describes him as the leading contemporary opponent of Harrington, and an illustration in his views of the theory of possessive individualism of C. B.
[6] Francis D. Wormuth writes that Wren reversed the relation between politics and economics found in Harrington.
[7] According to I. Bernard Cohen, Wren may have been the first, in Monarchy Asserted, to apply the term 'revolution' to the English Revolution.