Busts

The bust gallery at the NPG. A sort of low key version of what used to be the sculpture gallery of Tate Britain, before the sculptures were kicked out in favour of the rubbish thrown up on our beaches and such like stuff.

To the right, what I imagine is a portrait of William Gilbert "W. G." Grace, MRCS, LRCP, the most famous cricketer ever, with the initials being to do with the medical part of his career. Nominally an amateur, I was amused to read in Wikipedia that he was also notorious for his love of both the lime light and the money.

I associate to the two serious cricket buffs I have known over the years, both of whom could get quite lyrical about good batsmen, batsmen who could not only score runs, but could also do it with great style. Both of them rather disdained baseball as vastly inferior, but no doubt baseball buffs talk in the same sort of way. While more recently I have read that Eric Gill (of reference 1) could get very lyrical about one Sir Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji Jadeja, GCSI GBE, one of the most famous cricketers of his generation. Also a genuine nabob.

Reference 1: http://psmv3.blogspot.com/2018/05/books-from-honiton.html.

Reference 2: Eric Gill - Fiona MacCarthy - 1989.

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