Sidney Webb

Sidney Webb (1859–1947) was an English socialist, economist and politician. A London clerk's son, he joined the Fabian Society in 1885 and became its chief theorist; with his wife Beatrice, whom he married in 1892, he wrote The History of Trade Unionism, Industrial Democracy and the many volumes of English Local Government, and founded the London School of Economics in 1895 and the New Statesman in 1913. He drafted the Labour Party's constitution of 1918, sat in Parliament for Seaham, served in the Labour cabinets of 1924 and 1929 and was created Baron Passfield. The Webbs' partnership was the most productive in British social science.