Wren Hoskyns
British doctor (1956-2015)
Sir Edwyn Wren Hoskyns (4 February 1956 – 19 February 2015) was a British paediatrician and researcher into childhood diseases, notably tuberculosis, and from 2 June 2010 the 17th Hoskyns Baronet of Harewood in the County of Hereford in the Baronetage of England. He died on 19 February 2015.
The 17th Bt carries and uses the name Wren that derives from the name of the son of the 7th Bt. who married Theodosia, the great-granddaughter of the famous English architect and polymath, Sir Christopher Wren. Theodosia was her father's only child, and married Chandos Wren-Hoskyns on 20 April 1837 after Chandos Hoskyns had his name changed in the previous week by Royal Licence. They had one daughter, who died without issue. Her Wren inheritance passed to her cousins in the Hoskyns family. The Hoskyns family continued to use Wren and Chandos in other branches in subsequent generations to keep the names alive.
Family
Hoskyns was the son of physician Sir Benedict Leigh Hoskyns, 16th Baronet from 1956–2010, and Ann Wilkinson.
He married Winifred Jane Sellers, daughter of John Sellers, early in 1981.
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