[177] Born in Paris, 1643. The son of a Protestant jeweller, he went to Persia in search of diamonds, amassing a considerable fortune. He married in England in 1681, and died there in 1735. He was buried at Chiswick, but his monument is in Westminster Abbey. 'Sir John Chardin. _Nomen sibi fecit eundo._'--_Life of Sir C. Wren_, p. 419. Elmes. [178] _Diary_, August 30, 1680. [179] The friendship and connection with Sir Christopher is curious, for in 1857 Mr. Chandos Wren Hoskyns married Theodosia Anne Martha Wren, only surviving child of Christopher Roberts Wren, of Wroxall Abbey in Warwickshire, who was himself the great-great-grandson of Sir C. Wren, Mr. Chandos Hoskyns being the direct descendant of Sir J. Hoskyns mentioned above. To their only child, now the wife of the Rev. C. F. C. Pigott, Rector of Edgmond, Salop, and Prebendary of Lichfield, I am indebted for the use of many valuable family papers. [180] _Biog. Hist._, vol. iii. p. 371, vol. iv. p. 314. Grainger. [181] James Gibbs, a Scotch architect who built S. Mary-le-Strand, S. Martin's-in-the-Fields, &c.; born 1674, died 1754. [182] _Life of Bishop Ken,_ by a layman, ed. 1854, p. 186. CHAPTER X. 1681-1686. CHELSEA COLLEGE--S. JAMES'S, WESTMINSTER--A HARD WINTER--CHICHESTER SPIRE--AN ASTRONOMICAL PROBLEM--A SEAT IN PARLIAMENT--MORE CITY CHURCHES--A CURIOUS CARVING. If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.--_Merchant of Venice_, act i. scene ii.