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Kenneth Athol Webster was a collector and dealer of manuscripts, fine art and ethnographic artifacts associated with the Oceanic regions. Webster was born in Wellington, NZ and educated at Wellington College. In 1936 he moved to London; after 1945 he began to collect ethnographic antiquities, becoming a dealer focussed on the Pacific, including New Zealand and Australia. He found his treasures in auction houses, garage sales and antique and second-hand shops, in the UK and Europe. He also purchased material from small British country museums who were disposing of their collections, and swapped with other collectors such as James Hooper. By the 1950s he joined William O. Oldman and James T. Hooper as one of the top four collectors of ethnographic art in the UK. The provenance of many museums with Oceanic ethnographic holdings includes one or more of these collectors today. [Wikipedia]

Born: 1906
Died: 1967