Parliament Square: Statues

Parliament Square is a historic and symbolic garden area to the west of the Palace of Westminster.

I have walked around it on many occasions and have looked at the various statues, that peer down onto the tourists and passersby, but never really grasped the full range of people immortalised in the square.

Below are the statues, currently, spaced around the square.

George Canning (Foreign Secretary 1807–1809 and 1822–1827; Prime Minister 1827) 
by Sir Richard Westmacott.

Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (Prime Minister 1852, 1858–1859 and 1866–1868) 

by Matthew Noble.

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (Prime Minister 1855–1858 and 1859–1865) 
by Thomas Woolner.

Sir Robert Peel (Prime Minister 1834–1835 and 1841–1846)
by Matthew Noble.

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (Prime Minister 1868 and 1874–1880)
by Mario Raggi.

Abraham Lincoln (President of the United States 1861–1865)
by Augustus Saint-Gaudens.

Abraham Lincoln (President of the United States 1861–1865)
by Augustus Saint-Gaudens.

Jan Smuts (Prime Minister of South Africa 1919–1924 and 1939–1948)
by Sir Jacob Epstein.

Winston Churchill (Prime Minister 1940–1945 and 1951–1955)
by Ivor Roberts-Jones.

Nelson Mandela (President of South Africa 1994–1999)
by Ian Walters.

Nelson Mandela (President of South Africa 1994–1999)
by Ian Walters.

David Lloyd George (Prime Minister 1916–1922)
by Glynn Williams.

Mahatma Gandhi (Indian Independence Leader)
by Philip Jackson.

Millicent Fawcett (Campaigner for women's suffrage)
by Gillian Wearing.