During World War II a Royal Canadian Navy frigate was named the H.M.C.S. Runnymede after Runnymede C.I..
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His is estate was called “Runnymede” after the field of Runnymede, where King John of England signed the Magna Carta.
It first opened in 1911, the year of King George V's coronation, it replaced Elizabeth Street School, built in 1882.
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The school, named for trustee James Culnan, was opened in 1970 with the official opening and blessing 6 June 1971.
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James Culnan was a trustee for 37 years, until his death in 1964, and was knighted by Pope Pius XII in 1957 in honour of his work with the Metropolitan Separate School Board, today the Toronto Catholic District School Board.
On the opposite bank of the River Thames are the meadows of Runnymede and this tree is said to have been witness to the signing of Magna Carta.
John Francis Buckland was born in Runnymede, Wraysbury, England in 1825 in a farmhouse that was a former hunting lodge of King John.
Her breeder and owner was Peter Fuller of Runnymede Farms in North Hampton, New Hampshire, son of a former governor of Massachusetts.
On 16 April 2010, local councillor Daniel Hamilton (for the Englefield Green East ward of the borough of Runnymede), having had his journey to work delayed by half an hour by a No To Bike Parking Tax rush-hour "go slow", called the demonstrators "tossers" on his Twitter account.