Rt Hon. Lord Sidney Webb OM PC
(1859-1947)

Died aged c. 88

Sidney James Webb, 1st Baron Passfield, OM, PC (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.

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Sidney Webb 1859-1947 and Beatrice Webb 1858-1943 social scientists and political reformers lived here

10 Netherhall Gardens, Camden, NW3, London, United Kingdom where they lived

Sidney Webb (Lord Passfield) 1859-1947 Social Researcher and Reformer Founder of the LSE was born in a house on this site 13 July 1859

38-44 Cranbourn Street, London, United Kingdom where they was born (1859)