Lutyens and Runnymede

Surprising Connections to America

Host and Moderator(s): Martin Lutyens

Panelist(s): David Andreozzi, Anthony “Ankie” Barnes, Robin Prater

The names Runnymede, King John, and Magna Carta are forever entwined in history. This webinar explores the historic signing and how it came to be commemorated at Runnymede through the combination of an America woman, Cara Leland Rogers (Lady Fairhaven), Sir Edwin Lutyens, and the National Trust. Associated with the same site today is a memorial to John F. Kennedy, a Jamestown Oak, and a Magna Carta Memorial given by the American Bar Association. For Lutyens’s fans, the nearby Bell Weir Bridge was designed by by the architect and constructed after his death.