Richard Webster (rugby)
Richard Webster (born 9 July 1967) is a former Wales dual-code international rugby union and rugby league player. In 1993 he toured New Zealand with the British and Irish Lions rugby union team and at the time played club rugby for Swansea RFC. In 1995 he switched to rugby league to play second-row for Salford City Reds and appeared in the 1995 Rugby League World Cup.
In 2011 Webster was appointed head coach of the Wales national under-20 rugby union team following the departure of Darren Edwards.
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Richard Webster (New Zealand author)
Richard Webster (born December 9, 1946) is an award winning multi-million selling author,ghostwriter, mentalist, hypnotist and magician.
Biography
Richard Webster was born in Auckland, New Zealand. He was educated at King's School and King's College. As a child, he wrote and produced a weekly neighbourhood newspaper called The Waiochiel that he sold to his neighbours. He worked in publishing for several years before starting his career as a writer, entertainer, and speaker. He initially worked as a ghost writer, and wrote a small book on the subject. He is the author of 112 books, mainly on New Age topics. He has also written three novels.
His books have been translated into 29 languages: Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Bahasa Indonesia, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai and Turkish.
Richard Webster (British author)
Richard Webster (17 December 1950 – 24 June 2011) was a British author. His five published books deal with subjects such as the controversy over Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses, Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis, and the investigation of sexual abuse in Britain. Born in Newington, Kent, Webster studied English literature at the University of East Anglia and lived in Oxford, England. He became interested in the problem of false allegations partly due to reading the work of Norman Cohn. Webster's A Brief History of Blasphemy tries to understand the Muslim response to The Satanic Verses and argues against unrestricted freedom of speech. The book was praised by Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury. Webster may be best remembered for his subsequent book Why Freud Was Wrong, which argues that Freud became a kind of Messiah and that psychoanalysis is a disguised continuation of the Judaeo-Christian tradition. His The Secret of Bryn Estyn: The Making of a Modern Witch Hunt, which tells the story of a care home for adolescent boys that became the focus of press revelations and a police investigation for child abuse that spread across a number of residential homes in North Wales, was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize.
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