William John Seward Webber (January 1842 – c. 17 March 1919) was an English sculptor who created civic statuary, and busts of national heroes and local worthies, in marble.

He sculpted the statue of Queen Victoria for the Jubilee Monument in Harrogate, North Riding of Yorkshire, England in 1887.

William John Seward (West Teignmouth 1790 – 1857),[1] a superintendent of a home for Irish emigrants in Exeter, Devon, was Webber's maternal grandfather.

His mother was Hadassah Seward (Teignmouth 13 March 1822 – Knaresborough 1905),[4] a matron of the emigration depot.

Webber was a scholar living at the Emigrants' Home in St Andrew, Exeter, with his maternal grandparents.

[13] He was apprenticed as a carver, and after that he trained for two years at the studio of John Gendall (1790–1864),[14] at the same time attending Exeter School of Art.

According to the Harrogate Advertiser:[21] Webber was a shy unpushful man, careless about money which inhibited his professional advancement.

[33] It was reviewed by S.C. Hall in the Art Journal, December 1880:[14] The work was modelled by Mr. Webber whilst he was a student in the Royal Academy, and he was awarded by the council of that body a [prize] for the general excellence of the design.

The warrior represented is one of a prehistoric type, when the weapons in use were chiefly flint-headed arrows or bronze swords and spears, and the clothing merely the skin of some wild animal, giving the sculptor an excellent opportunity of displaying, what is always of importance in sculpture, the form and structure of the rude human figure.

The figure of the warrior is vigorous in action, the anatomical form being well defined, and the expression of tenderness and anxiety on account of the youth whom he is bearing is well depicted in his face.

The striking contrast with this robust and vigorous figure is the shrinking, writhing form of the wounded youth, stricken down in his first campaign.

His left hand covers the wound he has received, and he turns with an expression of pain to his comrade, who is bearing him to a place of safety.