Sir Christopher Wren: His Family and His Times: With Original Letters and a Discourse on Architecture Hitherto Unpublished. 1585-1723.Phillimore, Lucy
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Sir Christopher Wren: His Family and His Times: With Original Letters and a Discourse on Architecture Hitherto Unpublished. 1585-1723.
Phillimore, Lucy
Great Britain -- History -- Stuarts, 1603-1714 -- Biography; Wren family; Wren, Christopher, Sir, 1632-1723
Sayes Court occupied by Peter the Great, 286, 287
Scarborough, Sir Charles, 78, 224
Scudamore, Lord, 19
'Sessional Papers, R. I. B. A.,' 267, 268
Seven Bishops, the, trial of, 235, 260
Seward, 'Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons,' 222
Sheldon, Bishop of London and Archbishop of Canterbury, 140, 146
Sheldonian Theatre, the, built by Wren, 140, 331
Sherlock, Dean of S. Paul's, 281
Simpson, Dr. Sparrow, 'Documents illustrating the History of
S. Paul's,' 27, 274, 280, 288, 323
Smith, Bernard, or Father, builder of organ at S. Paul's, 275, 288
South, Dr., 69, 141
Spain, expedition of the Prince of Wales to, 7, 9
'Spectator, the,' 179
Sprat, Dr., Dean of Westminster and Bishop of Rochester,
his account of the meetings of the Royal Society, 95;
'History of Royal Society,' 95;
letters of, to Christopher Wren, 105, 132, 133;
his sermon before the Commons, 209;
is succeeded by Atterbury, 289
Steele, Sir R., 'The Tatler,' 239
Strafford, Lord, 48, 49, 50
Strong, Edward, Wren's master-mason, 272, 284, 297, 303
-- Thomas, brother of Edward, 200
Tangiers, fortifications of, 132
Tenison, Thomas, Bishop of Lincoln and Archbishop of Canterbury,
his secret ordination by Bishop Duppa, 123;
founding of a library at S. Martin's by, 226;
building of the Chapel of the Holy Trinity, Conduit St., by, 243
Temple Bar, built by Wren, 179
Tijou, M., worker in iron, maker of the gates in S. Paul's, 324,
326
Tilbury Fort, 216
Torricelli, his invention of the barometer, 100, 101
Tower of London, the, 44, 58, 59, 69, 71, 87, 114, 115, 187, 210,
211, 260, 261
Tradescant, John, collector of the objects of natural history in
the Oxford Museum, 217
Trelawney, Bishop of Winchester, 235
Trinity College, Oxford, 144, 145, 146
Trinity College, Cambridge, 146
Turner, Bishop of Ely, 260
Vanbrugh, Sir John, 286, 305
Van Vianen, Christian, 37
Ven, Colonel, 68
Verrio, painter, his work at Whitehall and Windsor, 252
Wadham College, Oxford, 73, 77, 79, 93, 95, 105
Waller, Edmund, 9, 196
Waller, Sir William, sack of the city of Chichester by, 79, 123
Wallis, Dr., 77, 78, 112, 141, 222, 223
Walpole, 'Anecdotes of Painting,' 37, 268
Walworth, Sir William, his tomb, 262
Ward, 'Lives of the Gresham Professors,' 79, 89, 128, 226
Ward, Dr. Seth., Bishop of Exeter, of Salisbury, 90, 124, 125, 171,
206
'Warwickshire Worthies,' 3, 330
Weather-clock, the invention of, by Wren, 89
Weavers, the, at Norwich, 23
Weld, 'History of the Royal Society,' 124, 193, 327
Westminster Abbey, 57, 230, 289, 293, 320, 331
-- School, 41, 57, 69, 90, 231
White, Bishop of Peterborough, 260, 281
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