David Pirie Webster, OBE (18 September 1928 – October 2023) was a Scottish author, historian, and sports promoter living in Glasgow. Webster was the organiser of the Highland Games in Largs for over 50 years.
David Pirie Webster was born on 18 September 1928. He completed a degree in physical education at Teachers Training College, in Aberdeen, and as a public school teacher before turning to community recreation and sports promotion work in Scotland. As an author, Webster published hundreds of articles in a wide variety of academic and popular journals.[1]
Webster was the the Chairman of Scottish Weightlifting,[2] and served as the Scottish weightlifting national coach, as well as referee, and competitor in that sport. He attended the 1960, 1968, and 1972 Olympics as part of the Scottish delegation and worked at the World & European Championships every year from 1961 to 1966 as either a technical official, referee, or coach. Webster was coach of the British team at the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships in Malta in 1983, and he also served for many years as Scottish National Weightlifting Coach. Webster also competed in weightlifting and in the sport of powerlifting. Webster was also an official in bodybuilding, and was a founding member of the National Amateur Bodybuilding Association (NABBA).
David P. Webster died in October 2023, at the age of 95.[5]
Highland Games and World Highland Games Heavy Events ChampionshipsEdit
In the 1960s, Webster began promoting the Highland games internationally as a way to bring tourists to Scotland and helped to revive some of the traditional Scottish sports such as stone-lifting and caber-tossing. He founded the World Highland Games Heavy Events Championships in 1980. The Championships has now been held in New Zealand, Canada, USA, Finland, Australia, Nigeria, and Scotland. The 2009 Championships, held in Scotland, was attended by 47,000 people including Charles, Duke of Rothesay, Camilla, Duchess of Rothesay, and many civic leaders. In 2013, Webster was invited to California at the request of former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for the commencement of Arnold Highland Games[6] as part of the Arnold Classic.
StrongmanEdit
Webster promoted the first televised strongman contest in 1955, which consisted of stone-lifting and weightlifting, and was later asked by Trans World International to serve as a consultant as they formed their World's Strongest Man television show in the late 1970s. Webster was also invited by Terry Todd to be part of the creation of the Arnold Strongman Classic, held annually as part of the Arnold Sports Festival in Columbus Ohio. He served as head official at that event for 14 years.[7]
Selected bibliographyEdit
The Iron Game: An Illustrated History of Weightlifting (1976)
Scottish Highland Games (1959)
Complete Physique Book (1963)
Lifting Illustrated (1966)
The Development of the Clean And Jerk (1967)
Bodybuilding--An Illustrated History (1982)
Donald Dinnie: The First Sporting Superstar (1999)
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