This is the sixth in our series in which we ask you to identify where in London this picture was taken and who it’s of. If you reckon you know the answer, leave a comment below. We’ll reveal the answer early next week. Good luck!
And the answer is…This is actually a bust of journalist and MP Tom O’Connor (1848-1929) and is located on the wall of Chronicle House, 72-78 Fleet Street. O’Connor worked on papers including the Daily Telegraph and the New York Herald (where he was London correspondant) after moving to London from Ireland. He was later known for his parliamentary sketches published in the Pall Mall Gazette and for founding several newspapers. O’Connor, although perhaps best remembered as a journalist, was also an MP – most famously for Liverpool (he was the only Irish Nationalist Party MP ever to sit in a constituency outside of Ireland), a position he held from 1885 until his death in 1929. The inscription underneath his bust reads: “His pen could lay bare the bones of a book or the soul of a statesman in a few vivid lines.”