21-year lease on the aforementioned property and an option to purchase after ten years for £7000. Beechey remained on the board of governors until 1856 at which point his association became a more informal supervisory one. He continued this role until his death in 1899. His views on the early days of the school can be read in his book - Rossall School Its Rise and Progress. There is a memorial to him in St Mark's churchyard, Worsley, Lancashire. References Further reading Canon St Vincent Beechey, Rossall School, Its Rise and Progress, 1894 John Frederick Rowbotham, History of Rossall School, First ed. 1895, John Heywood. W. Furness, The Centenary History of Rossall School, 1945, Gale and Polden Peter Bennett, A Very Desolate Position, 1977, Rossall Archives Peter Bennett, Rossall Will be What You Make it, 1992, Rossall Archives Derek Winterbottom, The Tide Flows On, 2006, Manx Press) 1806 births 1899 deaths Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Rossall School