Spalding War Memorial
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Spalding War Memorial is a First World War memorial in the gardens of Ayscoughfee Hall in Spalding, Lincolnshire, in eastern England. It was designed by the architect Sir Edwin Lutyens. The proposal f
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Lutyens's original proposal
The 1922 clock and carillon, now housed in a glass tower attached to the South Holland Centre
The memorial viewed from the side of the reflecting pool
Francis McLaren
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Francis Walter Stafford McLaren was a British Member of Parliament killed in the First World War in a flying accident.
Spalding War Memorial
…The proposal for a memorial to Spalding's war dead originated in January 1918 with Barbara McLaren, whose husband and the town's Member of Parliament, Francis McLaren, was killed in a flying accident during the war. She engaged Lutyens via a family connection and the architect produced a plan for a grand memorial…
Francis McLaren
Francis McLaren from the Roll of Honour published in The Illustrated London News on 8 September 1917
McLaren's headboard, designed by Edwin Lutyens, in the churchyard at Busbridge Church