Recognise This Chap?

LONDON has hundreds of statues - many of them commemorating royalty or war heroes, but this one off Cheapside had me stumped.

I guessed the statue must be of a prominent Elizabethan, which was a fairly safe guess considering the clothing.
An inscription on the rear of the statue shows it was made by a bronze-working company in New York.
Eventually I managed to decipher enough of an inscription on the plinth to make out it honours John Smith, a founder of the first permanent English settlement in the Americas, which was at Jamestown in what became Virginia.
The statue was presented to the City of London 60 years ago by a foundation in Virginia, where Smith is understandably rather more famous than he is here.
He is perhaps best known today outside of the US, if known at all, for having his life saved by Pocahontas, the daughter of a paramount chief (the story has been challenged over the years, but the consensus now seems to be that it is essentially true).
In his day - Smith died aged 51 in 1631 - he was better known as an international mercenary, fighting for the French against the Spanish and for the Habsburgs, and their allies, against the Turks.