From Mr Adrian Williams.

Sir, The campaign to honour Sir Keith Park is misguided only in its aim to place a statue of him on Trafalgar Square's empty plinth, which was intended for an equestrian statue of William IV (to balance that of his brother George IV at the north-east corner). A statue of Sir Keith Park would look only a little less lopsided and lost than Mark Wallinger’s Ecce Homo , which was the first and most distinguished of the rolling programme of contemporary art that has appeared on the plinth since 1999.

No, an equestrian statue is what is needed, preferably of a universally admired, respected and loved public figure – known to have an interest in horses, perhaps, and able to ride one. An association, however distant, with the House of Hanover would be helpful in suggesting continuity of history. An equestrienne would not be unsuitable. We must all scratch our heads and try to think of someone who, in the fullness of time, will fit the bill.

Adrian Williams,
Headington, Oxford OX3 9HW