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Australian activist (1913-2008)

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John Webster, also known as Mo(u)hammed Jon Webster, or more simply just Webster, was a soap box orator and public speaker, primarily at Speakers' Corner near Marble Arch at Hyde Park, London and beneath the Moreton Bay fig trees of The Domain, Sydney from the early 1950s till the late 1980s. He also made sorties into Arabia, Tasmania, Melbourne's Yarra Bank and various other outposts of what had been the British Empire. Webster, who almost exclusively referred to himself in the third person, delivered a wide-reaching and eclectic philosophy in a hybrid carny barking cockney/Australian accent. He was the most prominent and listened-to of all long-term speakers at the Sydney Domain. Journalist John Edwards wrote in 1971 "The only (modern) force is the inimitable Webster who, lately returned from England, is responsible for most of the popularity of the (Sydney) Domain." Nene King observed of a day spent at the Sydney Domain "Webster commanded the largest audience as he waved a verbal flag for the British Empire – 'We Englishmen are God's gift to the whole world.'"

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Citizenship: Australia
Born: December 1913
Died: December 15, 2008

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