Sidney Webb

1859 - 1947

Country of citizenship: United Kingdom

Languages spoken, written or signed: English

Educated at: Birkbeck, University of London, King's College London, The Dickson Poon School of Law

Occupation: politician, professor, economist, historian, sociologist, writer, aristocrat

Position held: President of the Board of Trade, Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, Secretary of State for the Colonies, Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, member of the 34th Parliament of the United Kingdom, member of the 33rd Parliament of the United Kingdom, member of the 32nd Parliament of the United Kingdom, member of the House of Lords, member of London County Council

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Sidney James Webb, 1st Baron Passfield, (13 July 1859 – 13 October 1947) was a British socialist, economist and reformer, who co-founded the London School of Economics. He was an early member of the Fabian Society in 1884, joining, like George Bernard Shaw, three months after its inception. Along with his wife Beatrice Webb and with Annie Besant, Graham Wallas, Edward R. Pease, Hubert Bland and Sydney Olivier, Shaw and Webb turned the Fabian Society into the pre-eminent politico-intellectual society in Edwardian England. He wrote the original, pro-nationalisation Clause IV for the British Labour Party. Source: Wikipedia (en)