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  Sidney Webb
Sidney Webb, the son of an accountant, was born in London on 13th July, 1859.
Webb was appointed as Chairman of the Technical Instruction Committee and as a result was known as the Minister of Public Education for London.
As Sidney Webb pointed out, the intention of the institution was to "teach political economy on more modern and more socialist lines than those on which it had been taught hitherto, and to serve at the same time as a school of higher commercial education".
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 Sidney James Webb, 1st Baron Passfield - Definition, explanation
Sidney James Webb (July 13, 1859–October 13, 1947) was a British socialist, economist and reformer, normally referred to in the same breath as his wife, Beatrice Webb.
Together with Beatrice Webb, Annie Besant, Graham Wallas, Edward R. Pease, Hubert Bland and Sidney Olivier, Shaw and Webb turned the Fabian Society into the pre-eminent political-intellectual society in England in the Edwardian era and beyond.
Webb was born in London to a professional family.
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 Sidney James Webb, 1st Baron Passfield Biography and Summary
Baron Passfield of Passfield Corner, Sidney James Webb was a social reformer, co-founder of the London School of Economics, Cabinet minister, and historian, who deeply affected social ideas and institutions in England.
Sidney James Webb, Baron Passfield (1859-1947), was an English social reformer and a leading Fabian Socialist, a historian of social and economic institutions, founder of the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Cabinet minister.
Sidney James Webb, 1st Baron Passfield(July 13, 1859 – October 13, 1947) was a British socialist, economist and reformer, normally referred to in the same breath as his wife, Beatrice Webb.
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 Sidney James Webb, 1st Baron Passfield information - Search.com
Sidney James Webb, 1st Baron Passfield (July 13, 1859–October 13, 1947) was a British socialist, economist and reformer, normally referred to in the same breath as his wife, Beatrice Webb.
The couple's influence can be seen in their hosting of the Coefficients, a dining club which attracted some of the leading statesmen and thinkers of the day.
In H.G. Wells "The New Machiavelli," the Webbs are unmercifully lampooned as short-sighted, bourgeouis manipulators.The Fabian Society, of which Wells was briefly a member, fares no better in Wells' estimation.
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 Beatrice Potter Webb
Webb, Beatrice Potter, 1858–1943, English socialist economist; daughter of a wealthy industrialist.
In 1922 Sidney Webb was elected to Parliament.
He was president of the board of trade in the 1924 Labour government and secretary for the colonies from 1929 to 1931.
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