My Lancashire - My accounts of the local area

MONUMENT TO THE LATE JOHN HORROCKS, ESQ., M.P.  Sometimes, perhaps often, things are not quite what they seem. I had been on an intermittent 'wild goose chase' looking for this monument.  I visited St. Mary's Church in Penwortham on several occasions, and whilst it wasn't the sole purpose of my visits, I was always keeping an eye out for it.  The fatal flaw was that I had made an assumption that it was outside.  I can't remember how I came to realise otherwise, but the item is safe inside the church protected from the elements.  By the time I had come to this conclusion, I had completed several dozen laps of the church graveyard.  This information is taken from the Preston Chronicle of Saturday 15th August 1863 (Issue 2692)   MONUMENT TO THE LATE JOHN HORROCKS, ESQ., M.P. Within the last few weeks, a very handsome monumental tablet has been placed in Penwortham Church, to the memory of this remarkable man, by his nephew, Mr. Walter Horrocks Whitehead, ...