Chandos Wren-Hoskyns BA

Bachelor of Arts

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, JP

Justice of the Peace

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, DL

Deputy Lieutenant

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 (15 February 1812 – 28 November 1876) was an English landowner, agriculturist and author.

He was born the second son of Sir Hungerford Hoskyns, 7th Baronet

Hoskyns Baronets

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 of Harewood Park

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, Herefordshire

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. In 1837 he married Theodosia Wren—great-great-great-granddaughter of Christopher Wren

Christopher Wren

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, and daughter and heiress of Christopher Roberts Wren of Wroxall Abbey

Wroxall Abbey

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, Warwickshire

Warwickshire

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—and by Royal License changed his surname to Wren-Hoskyns.

Educated at Oxford University

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, Wren-Hoskyns was called to the Bar at Inner Temple

Inner Temple

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 in 1838. He served as High Sheriff of Warwickshire

High Sheriff of Warwickshire

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 in 1855 and was appointed Deputy Lieutenant

Deputy Lieutenant

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 of the county in 1860. He was Member of Parliament

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 for Hereford

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 from 1869 to 1874.

As an author his main interest was reform of land tenure

Land tenure

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. His works included:

• A Short Inquiry into the History of Agriculture in Mediaeval and Modern Times (1849)
• Talpa or the Chronicles of a Clay Farm. An Agricultural Fragment (1853)
• Agricultural Statistics (1857)
• Occasional Essays (1866)
• A Catechism on the English Land System (1873)

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