Tony Willoughby

Westminster Abbey and the United States of America Tony Willoughby

A tour of Westminster Abbey and St Margaret's Church focussing on the many connections with the United States of America from Sir Walter Raleigh who was buried in the second decade of the 17th century to Martin Luther King Jr. whose statue stands above the Great West Door. Others include Admiral Edward Vernon who gave his name to Washington's estate on the Potomac, the 1st Duke of Northumberland, father of the founding donor of the Smithsonian Institution, George Peabody from Massachusetts, whose business was the foundation of the JP Morgan empire and the extraordinary Winter Olympics Gold medallist, Billy Fiske III, the only American pilot memorialised in the Battle of Britain Roll of Honour.