How was Christopher Wren involved in founding the Royal Society?

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Christopher Wren Sir Christopher Wren, detail of an oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1711; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Christopher Wren was a key figure in the establishment of the Royal Society, serving as one of its founders and later as its president from 1680 to 1682.12

His involvement began at Gresham College in London, where he was a professor of astronomy. Following the restoration of Charles II in 1660, an intellectual circle at the college proposed forming a society dedicated to the promotion of "Physico-Mathematicall Experimental Learning." Wren was among the most active participants in this group, and he notably authored the preamble to the society's charter.1