Better crop I think as suggested by @rich57 - thanks! I hadn't tried a close in square crop which works better than rectangular - and I've processed it so much that the dodgy focus isn't so obvious!
It does make him more the focal point but I prefer the first one as it shows the man in the wider sense as an isolated figure in a mortar board in the middle of a Cambridge street !
Great shot Judith. That's how I would have cropped it, as it keeps the key items of interest while removing some of the less interesting features (= lampost).
main point of interest here!