Wren, Christopher Michael, Sir, 1632-1723
WREN, SIR CHRISTOPHER, son of Very Rev. Christopher Wren, Dean of Windsor, and Mary, dau. of Robert Cox, Fonthill Abbey, Wilts.; bapt. 10 Nov 1632; adm. 1641; left 1646; Wadham Coll. Oxford, adm. fellow commoner 25 Jun 1649 (or 1650); BA 18 Mar 1650/1; MA 1653; DCL 1661; LLD Cambridge 1662; Fellow, All Souls Coll. Oxford 1653-7; Professor of Astronomy, Gresham Coll., London 1657-61; Savilian Professor of Astronomy, Oxford Univ. 5 Feb 1660/1- 9 Mar 1673; initiated experiments on the cause of the variations of the barometer; conducted research into anatomy and medical subjects; drew up the preamble to the first charter of the Royal Society 1660; one of the Council named in the second charter of the Royal Society 22 Apr 1663; FRS 20 May 1663 (original Fellow); one of the three Commissioners named by Charles II in October 1666 to consider rebuilding the city of London after the Great Fire; Surveyor of the King’s Works Mar 1668/9-1718; knighted 20 Nov 1673; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 25 Apr 1676; President, Royal Society 30 Nov 1680 – 30 Nov 1682; Comptroller of Works, Windsor Castle 1684-1716; MP Plympton 1685-7, Windsor Jan 1688/9 – unseated 14 May 1689, Mar 1689/90 – unseated 17 May 1690, Weymouth and Melcombe Regis Nov 1701-2; Surveyor of St. Paul’s Cathedral from 1675; Surveyor, Greenwich Hospital 1696-1716; Surveyor to the Fabric, Westminster Abbey, from 1699; architect of St. Paul’s Cathedral, many London city churches and halls of City livery companies, Temple Bar, the Monument, Greenwich Hospital, Chelsea Hospital, the Sheldonian Theatre and Old Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Tom Tower, Christ Church, Oxford, and Neville’s Court and the Library, Trinity Coll. Cambridge; made extensive alterations and additions at Hampton Court, Windsor Castle, Kensington Palace and Westminster Abbey; purchased Wroxall Abbey estate, Warwickshire, for his son 1713; m. 1st, 27 Dec 1669 Faith, dau. of Sir Thomas Coghill, Kt, Bletchingdon, Oxfordshire; m. 2nd, 24 Feb 1676/7 Hon. Jane Fitzwilliam, sister of Hon. Charles Fitzwilliam (qv); d. 25 Feb 1722/3. Buried St. Paul’s Cathedral. DNB.
WRAY, JOHN, brother of Sir Cecil Wray, Bart. (qv); b. 31 Mar 1736; adm. Apr 1745 (Smalwell's); buried Teddington, Middlesex 5 Oct 1748.
WRAY, SIR CECIL, BART., eldest son of Sir John Wray, Bart., and Frances, dau. of Fairfax Norcliffe, Langton, Yorks.; b. 3 Sep 1734; adm. Apr 1745 (Smalwell's); left 1749; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 1749, matr. 1749; succ. as 13th baronet 26 Jan 1752; Cornet, 1st Dragoons 26 Dec 1755 – 20 Dec 1757; of Fillingham, Lincs.; MP East Retford 1768-80, Westminster 12 Jun 1782-4; a strenuous opponent of the American War; denounced the Fox-North coalition, and opposed Fox’s East India Bill; unsuccessfully contested Westminster against Hood and Fox at the general election of 1784; satirised in The Rolliad and caricatured by Rowlandson and Gillray; m. Esther, dau. of James Summers, Fillingham, Lincs.; d. 10 Jan 1805. DNB.
Wrangham, Walter Francis, 1829-1893
WRANGHAM, WALTER FRANCIS, eldest son of Digby Cayley Wrangham MP, Serjeant-at-Law, Wilton Crescent, London, and Amelia, second dau. of Walter Ramsden Fawkes (qv); b. 15 Sep 1829; adm. 30 Sep 1842 (G); went to Eton Coll.; Exeter Coll. Oxford, matr. 11 May 1848; BA 1852; MA 1855; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 10 Nov 1852, called to bar 17 Nov 1859; Western Circuit; of Hotham House, Yorks.; JP [Yorkshire ?]; m. 9 Jul 1868 Fanny, only dau. of John Grimston, Neswick Hall, Yorks.; d. 12 Dec 1893.
Wraight, Frederick Ernest, 1908-?
Wraight, Frederick Ernest, son of Ernest Alfred Wraight CIE, Metallurgical Inspector to Govt of India, and Henrietta, d. of Henry Merrett of Wallington, Surrey; b. 15 Aug. 1908; adm. May 1922 (H); left July 1925.
WORTLEY, THOMAS, son of Robert Wortley, Staffs.; b.; adm.; KS (aged 16) in 1655; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1656, adm. pens. 14 May 1656, scholar 1656, matr. Easter 1659; BA 1659/60; MA 1663.
WORTLEY, FRANCIS, elder son of Hon. Sidney Wortley MP (formerly Montagu), Wortley, Yorks., and Anne Newcomen, natural dau. of Sir Francis Wortley, Bart.; nephew of Hon. Oliver Montagu (qv); b. ; at school under Busby (Admissions to Trin.Coll.Camb., ii, 587) ; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 2 Aug 1693, aged 17; Grand Tour (at Padua 1697) ; MP Huntingdon 14 Dec 1697-1702; fought a duel with Hon. Charles Boyle, his fellow MP for Huntingdon, Mar 1701 ; d. unm. Sep 1702.