Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield
Sidney James Webb, 1st Baron Passfield, (13 July 1859 – 13 October 1947) was a
British socialist, economist, supporter of Stalinism, 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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