It was Barbara McLaren who first proposed the memorial and engaged Lutyens to design it. Mrs McLaren was a niece of Lutyens’ noted collaborator, Gertrude Jekyll, and Lutyens had already designed a house for the McLarens. Mrs McLaren’s 1st Husband was the town’s MP Francis McLaren
from the Ayscoughfee Collection
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You have misspelt Barbara’s name in the heading