Location: St Nicholas Church, Brighton

Type: Grave

Date of death: 17 June 1835
Place of death: Brighton

Note: Records show that Sir Francis Laforey Bt KCB, of Grand Parade, Brighton, aged 67 years, was buried at St Nicholas Church on 24 June 1835 (E Sussex Record Office ref PAR 255/1/5/5). The Brighton Corporation Act 1931 included powers to remove any tombstone or monument in order to better drain, level, lay out, plant, ornament or otherwise improve disused burial grounds. Some of the tombstones of St Nicholas were moved in the late 1940s/early 1950s, and a transcript made of them, but there is no record that Sir Francis’s stone was among them. The graveyard has now been almost completely cleared and all flat headstones have been placed around the edge of the site. However, very few are readable, perhaps because the church is situated high up above the town and would have been subject to sea gales corroding the stones. Therefore it must be concluded that there now remains no visible record on the ground of the grave.