Bacon!....wtf?

[ZenGum]

Ubernerd status will be conferred upon whoever guesses the identity of this person:
Clue : still related to bacon.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

Ubernerd status will be conferred upon whoever guesses the identity of this person:
Clue : still related to bacon.

Is that supposed to be Roger Bacon, the alchemist?

[ZenGum]

Originally Posted by glatt

Is that supposed to be Roger Bacon, the alchemist?

Nice try, but no cigar, Glatt. I was going to do him but it was too obvious.

Next clue: his name is not actually "Bacon", but something connected with Bacon.

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

Ubernerd status will be conferred upon whoever guesses the identity of this person:
Clue : still related to bacon.

I believe it to be an unkind sculpture of Lester Piggott, British jockey and tax-evader.

[glatt]

Thing that's pissing me off is I'm pretty sure I've seen that statue (a picture of it) before. Can't place it though.

[ZenGum]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

Ubernerd status will be conferred upon whoever guesses the identity of this person:
Clue : still related to bacon.

Since interest has rapidly waned, I'll tell you that the gentleman in question is:
Marcus Porcius Cato (234-149 BC), quaestor, aedile, praetor, and finally consul of Rome.
Also known as Cato the Elder and Cato the Censor, and sometimes as Cato the uptight grumpy frustrated puritanical bastard with a huge chip on his shoulder.
His middle name is indeed Porcius, which translates roughly as Piggy, and which was a respectable name back then. Yep, Mark Piggy Cato. No wonder he was grumpy.