Jack Webster

John Barron Webster (8 July 193117 March 2020) was a Scottish journalist and an author. He wrote eighteen books and the BBC television series The Webster Trilogy.

Early life Webster was born in 1931 in Fedderate Cottages, Maud, Aberdeenshire, to John Sr and Edith Margaret Barron. His father worked as an auctioneer at the local cattle market.

After attending Maud Primary School, Webster graduated from Aberdeen's Robert Gordon's College. He left school at the age of 14, after a combination of rheumatic fever and a dislike of his headmaster. whom he tracked down to a hotel in Banchory, Aberdeenshire. As Chaplin signed a few autographs for Webster, the journalist reminded Chaplin that he once played the Tivoli Theatre in Aberdeen. Webster then convinced him to revisit the theatre one more time.

Webster became a freelance writer for the Glasgow Herald in the 1980s. He wrote a history of the club for its centenary in 2003. aged 88. including his three-volume memoir: