Kenneth Athol Webster (17 December 1906 – 5 October 1967) was a collector and dealer of manuscripts, fine art and ethnographic artifacts associated with Oceanic peoples.
He soon turned this from a hobby into a vocation and became a dealer specially focussed on the Oceanic area including New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific.
[2] Like his contemporary William Ockelford Oldman who was also a collector dealer, he found his treasures in the auction houses, car boot sales, antique and second-hand shops of the United Kingdom and Europe.
By the 1950s he joined William Ockelford Oldman and James Thomas Hooper as one of the top four collectors of ethnographic art in the United Kingdom.
Such was the prominent position of these three that the provenance of a large percentage of Oceanic ethnographic material in museums today includes one or more of these collectors.