George Tinworth (5 November 1843 – 11 September 1913[1]) was an English ceramic artist who worked for the Doulton factory at Lambeth from 1867 until his death.

[2] Born at 6 Milk Street, Walworth Common, South London, England, Tinworth was the son of a greengrocer turned wheelwright and the family suffered extreme poverty.

Brought up to follow in his father's footsteps, he spent his spare time carving off-cuts and soon showed a precocious talent for art.

At nineteen he pawned his overcoat to pay for evening classes at the local Lambeth School of Art in Kennington Park Road.

In the same year that he began study at Lambeth he created 'The Mocking of Christ', now on show at the Cuming Museum on the Walworth Road, Southwark.

Through his engagement with Doulton, Tinworth also designed an altarpiece, a pulpit and a font for St. Alban's Anglican Church which was consecrated in 1887 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

[5] The Cuming Museum, Southwark, has three examples of his life-sized clay heads and a terracotta scene entitled The Jews making bricks under Egyptian Taskmasters.

The first to be exhibited there, in the year he joined the school, was a group of children fighting called "Peace and Wrath in Low Life".

Though this was Tinworth's most ambitious autonomous art project, he also made a number of complex figure compositions in relief, including The Release of Barabas and Saul attacking David.