Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield
Politician
1859 – 1947
Who was Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield?
Sidney James Webb, 1st Baron Passfield PC OM was a British socialist, economist, reformer and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. He was one of the early members of the Fabian Society in 1884, along with George Bernard Shaw. Along with his wife, Beatrice Webb, Annie Besant, Graham Wallas, Edward R. Pease, Hubert Bland, and Sydney Olivier, Shaw and Webb turned the Fabian Society into the pre-eminent political-intellectual society of England in the Edwardian era and beyond. He wrote the original Clause IV for the British Labour Party.
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- Born
- Jul 13, 1859
London - Also known as
- Sidney Webb
- Spouses
- Beatrice Webb
(1892/07 - )
- Beatrice Webb
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Education
- Birkbeck, University of London
Law - King's College London
- Birkbeck, University of London
- Died
- Oct 13, 1947
Liphook - Resting place
- Westminster Abbey
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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