Edgar George Papworth, Jr.

Edgar George Papworth Jnr (25 June 1832 – 20 January 1927) was an English sculptor, who was popular in the later nineteenth century.

Papworth was born in the Marylebone district of London and came from a family long connected with stonework. In 1870, Papworth was chosen to make a statue of the Birmingham industrialist Josiah Mason, but Mason vetoed the proposal, and Papworth was paid 150 guineas in compensation. Eventually, a statue of Mason was created posthumously, by Francis John Williamson. Papworth's work then fell out of fashion, and he was not mentioned in a list of English sculptors compiled in 1901. He died at Bexleyheath, where he had lived since about 1911.