Pipe Smoker of the Year
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[citation needed] 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 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.
Pipe Smokers of the Year
- 1964 – Rupert Davies
- 1965 – Harold Wilson
- 1966 – Andrew Cruickshank
- 1967 – Warren Mitchell[lower-roman 1]
- 1968 – Peter Cushing
- 1969 – Jack Hargreaves
- 1970 – Eric Morecambe
- 1971/72[lower-roman 2] – Lord Shinwell
- 1973 – Frank Muir
- 1974 – Fred Trueman
- 1975 – Campbell Adamson
- 1976 – Harold Wilson (Pipeman of the Decade)
- 1977 – Brian Barnes
- 1978 – Magnus Magnusson
- 1979 – J. B. Priestley
- 1980 – Edward Fox[lower-roman 3]
- 1981 – James Galway
- 1982 – Dave Lee Travis
- 1983 – Patrick Moore
- 1984 – Henry Cooper
- 1985 – Jimmy Greaves
- 1986 – David Bryant
- 1987 – Barry Norman
- 1988 – Ian Botham
- 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[2]
- 2003 – Stephen Fry
Notes
- ↑ 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
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