Samuel Johnson

I was in Fleet Street the other week and I noticed this statue of Johnson outside St Clement Danes, the church he used to attend.

On the base it says

Samuel Johnson LLD, critic, essayist, philologist, biographer, wit, poet, moralist, dramatist, political writer, talker. Born 1709, died 1784. The gift and handiwork of Percy Fitzgerald, FSA and erected by the Revd. S. Pennington, MA, Rector of St. Clement Danes, 1910.

(Around the pedestal there are 3 large bronze reliefs: - on front - Boswell's head in profile, inscribed "Boswell" - on left hand side - Johnson with Mrs Thrale, inscribed "Mrs Thrale" - on right hand side - Johnson with Boswell, in the Highlands).