Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield

British Baron and politician

Sidney James Webb, 1st Baron Passfield, OM, PC (13 July 1859 – 13 October 1947) 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, who like George Bernard Shaw joined 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 political-intellectual society in Edwardian England. He wrote the original, pro-nationalisation Clause IV for the British Labour Party.

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Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield was born on Wednesday, 13 July 1859 in London. They were best known as a historian. Passfield's country of citizenship (nationality) was British. They died on Monday, 13 October 1947 in Liphook, Hampshire at the age of 88. Politically, they were affiliated with the Labour Party (UK). Their zodiac star sign were Cancer.

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