Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield

Sidney James Webb, 1st Baron Passfield (1859 to 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, joining in 1884, three months after its start, as George Bernard Shaw did. Together 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 Clause IV of the British Labour Party, which called for nationalisation.