Nelson William Illingworth (August 1862 – 26 June 1926)[1][2] was an English sculptor and colourful bohemian.
[1] He studied at the Lambeth art school and worked as a modeller at the Royal Doulton potteries.
[citation needed] At Papawai pa, New Zealand, he erected a monument in 1911, to the memory of Hamuera Tamahau Mahupuku, a distinguished chief of Ngati-Kahungunu.
[3] Illingworth was one of the seven 'heptarchs' of the Dawn and Dusk Club of which Australian writer Henry Lawson and other notable Sydney bohemians were members around 1898.
[3] Illingworth was preparing models for the Henry Lawson statue competition when he died suddenly on 26 June 1926 in the Sydney suburb of Harbord.