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Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield, English economist and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (died 1947)

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Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield

English socialist economist (1859–1947)

Sidney James Webb, 1st Baron Passfield, was a British socialist, economist 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…
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Secretary of State for the Colonies

British Cabinet minister

The secretary of state for the colonies or colonial secretary was the Cabinet of the United Kingdom's minister in charge of managing certain parts of the British Empire.
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