grounds of St Andrew's Church, Maghull. His elder son Roland took over as chairman of Meccano Ltd. Hornby's legacy lives on today with thousands of enthusiasts all over the world still building Meccano models, running Hornby Train sets and collecting Dinky Toys. In his homeplace of Maghull there is a local Wetherspoons pub named after him, The Frank Hornby. 150th anniversary The 150th anniversary of Frank Hornby's birth fell on 15 May 2013, and festivities were held by the National Museums Liverpool and the Frank Hornby Charitable Trust, Maghull, and by the Brighton Toy and Model Museum. Google also celebrated the 150th Anniversary with a Google Doodle on their UK homepage on 15 May 2013. See also List of English inventors and designers Bibliography References External links Frank Hornby's Life and the History of Meccano Frank Hornby: The Boy Who Made $1,000,000 With a Toy Short Pictorial History of Frank Hornby. Archived from the original on 2006-02-15. Liverpool Lives – Frank Hornby 1863 births 1936 deaths Businesspeople from Liverpool Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies English inventors Model engineers Politicians from Liverpool Toy inventors UK MPs 1931–1935 English company founders