John Pemberton Heywood (1803–1877) was a banker from Liverpool, England, who was High Sheriff of Lancashire in 1855.
Initially a Unitarian and a member of the congregation at Renshaw Street Chapel, Heywood was the largest financial donor to the construction of Hope Street Unitarian Chapel before changing his religious affiliation to the Church of England.
Thereafter, he and his wife paid for the crossing tower designed by George Gilbert Scott at St Mary's Church in the village of West Derby.
His other financial contributions to public architecture include a William Eden Nesfield-designed cross and some charity cottages, also in West Derby.
[5] Heywood was uncle to Henry Bright[3] and to Arthur Pemberton Lonsdale.