Rt Hon. Lord Sidney Webb OM PC
(1859-1947)
social scientist, political reformer, Privy Counsellor (from 1924), 1st Baron Passfield (from 1929), and Order of Merit recipient (from 1944)
Died aged c. 88
Wikidata WikipediaSidney 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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founder of London School of Economics & Political Science 1895
Commemorated on 2 plaques
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)