The Lord Passfield | |
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![]() Webb in 1893 | |
President of the Board of Trade | |
In office 22 January 1924 – 3 November 1924 | |
Monarch | George V |
Prime Minister | Ramsay MacDonald |
Preceded by | Sir Philip Lloyd-Graeme |
Succeeded by | Sir Philip Lloyd-Graeme |
Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs | |
In office 7 June 1929 – 5 June 1930 | |
Monarch | George V |
Prime Minister | Ramsay MacDonald |
Preceded by | Leo Amery |
Succeeded by | James Henry Thomas |
Secretary of State for the Colonies | |
In office 7 June 1929 – 24 August 1931 | |
Monarch | George V |
Prime Minister | Ramsay MacDonald |
Preceded by | Leo Amery |
Succeeded by | James Henry Thomas |
Personal details | |
Born | Sidney James Webb 13 July 1859 London, England |
Died | 13 October 1947 Liphook, Hampshire, England | (aged 88)
Political party | Labour |
Spouse | |
Alma mater | Birkbeck, University of London King's College London |
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.[1] 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.