Pipe Smoker of the Year
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Pipe Smoker of the Year was an award given out annually by the British Pipesmokers' Council, to honour a famous pipe-smoking individual. Initiated in 1965 as Pipeman of the Year by the Briar Pipe Trade Association, it was presented at a lunch in London's Savoy Hotel each January. The award was discontinued in 2004 because its organisers feared it fell foul of laws banning all advertising and promotion of tobacco.[1]
The award was briefly reintroduced in 2014, by the UK Federation of Pipe Clubs, at the British Pipe Smoking Championship at Newark Showground. In a departure from previous awards the recipient was not a celebrity, but the outgoing President of the UK Federation of Pipe Clubs Brian Mills, in recognition for his personal contribution in recommencing the British Pipe Smoking Championships.[2]
Pipe Smokers of the Year
[edit]- 1964 – Rupert Davies
- 1965 – Harold Wilson[3]
- 1966 – Andrew Cruickshank
- 1967 – Warren Mitchell[i]
- 1968 – Peter Cushing
- 1969 – Jack Hargreaves
- 1970 – Eric Morecambe
- 1971/72[ii] – Lord Shinwell
- 1973 – Frank Muir
- 1974 – Fred Trueman
- 1975 – Campbell Adamson
- 1976 – Harold Wilson (Pipeman of the Decade)
- 1977 – Brian Barnes[4]
- 1978 – Magnus Magnusson
- 1979 – J. B. Priestley
- 1980 – Edward Fox[iii]
- 1981 – James Galway
- 1982 – Dave Lee Travis
- 1983 – Patrick Moore
- 1984 – Henry Cooper
- 1985 – Jimmy Greaves
- 1986 – David Bryant[5]
- 1987 – Barry Norman
- 1988 – Ian Botham[6]
- 1989 – Jeremy Brett
- 1990 – Laurence Marks
- 1991 – John Harvey-Jones
- 1992 – Tony Benn
- 1993 – Rod Hull
- 1994 – Ranulph Fiennes
- 1995 – Jethro
- 1996 – Colin Davis
- 1997 – Malcolm Bradbury
- 1998 – Willie John McBride
- 1999 – Trevor Baylis
- 2000 – Joss Ackland
- 2001 – Russ Abbot
- 2002 – Richard Dunhill[7]
- 2003 – Stephen Fry[8]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Warren Mitchell did not accept his award, calling it "silly". "I smoke a pipe; I also use a lavatory brush. By the same token you could make me 'lavatory brush man of the year.'" The Guardian 13 January 1968
- ^ Until 1972 the award was made for the pipe smoker of the previous year; from 1973 onwards it was for the forthcoming year. Manny Shinwell, who held the award throughout 1972, was subsequently listed as the "1971/1972" winner.
- ^ Edward Fox accepted his award but declined the prize of three pipes and a quantity of his favourite tobacco and asked for the cash value, about £100, to be sent to help Cambodian refugees. The Times 25 January 1980
References
[edit]- ^ Thompson, Jonathan (18 January 2004). "Annual pipe-smoker award is extinguished". The Independent. Independent News and Media. Retrieved 7 October 2009.
- ^ "Brian Mills Pipe Smoker of the Year 2014". CIPC. 2014. Retrieved 2 March 2023.
- ^ "Harold Wilson Did Have a Top Secret MI File". Town & Country. 3 November 2022. Retrieved 28 June 2023.
- ^ "Interview: Brian Barnes". Retrieved 23 June 2017.
- ^ "David Bryant obituary". The Times. 27 June 2023. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 28 June 2023.
- ^ Murray, Scott (6 December 2013). "The Joy of Six: smoking sports stars". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 28 June 2023.
- ^ "And the Pipe Smoker of the Year for 2003 is..." BBC News. 17 January 2002. Retrieved 7 October 2009.
- ^ "Fry lights up pipe-smoking award". Irish Examiner. 27 February 2003. Retrieved 28 June 2023.
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