This used to be "mystery bust" in Puzzle Corner but our colleague, Alan Patient, has done some research into the appropriately squiffy-looking portrait and found this building to be the dead pub, the Earl Russell. The title was created in 1861 for Lord John Russell who totalled about 7 years as Prime Minister and died in 1878. Puzzle solved - we'll buy Alan a pint in the Earl Russell should it ever re-open.
W1, Mortimer Street, 22, Earl Russell
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Earl Russell bust
Author, Prime Minister. Born Hertford Street, Mayfair, the 3rd son of the Du...
This bust is a 20th-century replica after Louis-François Roubiliac, 1757.
This bust is a 20th-century replica after Michael Rysbrack, 18th century.
The corridor with the two busts, plaque and glass display area is on the ground floor of the Hunter wing.
{The front of the stone plinth is inscribed:} Hunter {On a plaque attached to the side of the plinth:} This bust of John Hunter (1728 ...
Past Prime Warden of The Worshipful Company of Basketmakers and son of Dennis Robinson.
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