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John Webster (orator)
John Webster (December 1913 – 15 December 2008), aka Mo(u)hammed Jon Webster, or more simply just Webster, was a soap box orator and public speaker who principally plied his trade 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 the then wilds of Arabia, Tasmania, Melbourne's Yarra Bank and various other outposts of the erstwhile British Empire. Webster, who almost exclusively referred to himself in the third person, cultivated a provocative oratorical style of delivering 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 inimitible (sic) Webster who, lately returned from England, is responsible for most of the popularity of the (Sydney) Domain."〔John Edwards: ''The National Times'', Dec 27th 1971 p. 5〕 Nene King observed of a day spent at the Sydney Domain "Webster (no first name, no mister) commanded the largest audience as he waved a verbal flag for the British Empire - 'We Englishmen are God's gift to the whole world.'"〔Nene King: ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', June 28, 1971 p. 8〕
==Early life==
Webster was born in London in December 1913. His father battled alcoholism and his mother was in The Salvation Army. His grandparents were Irish. As a teenager, Webster was a Salvation Army soldier and worked in dispatch at the Army's Trade Headquarters. At the age of 18 Webster became disillusioned, left The Salvation Army and became an atheist.〔'An Interesting Life, Lived to the Full' in On Fire Magazine, 2008〕
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