Hewins, William Albert Samuel 1865-1931
Archival location guide — where this economist’s surviving papers are held, their notable correspondents, and key published sources.
Born 1865 · died 1931
William Albert Samuel Hewins was a British economist and Conservative politician. In 1895, he was appointed by Sidney Webb as the first Director of the London School of Economics, a post he held until 1903.
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The main collection of personal and business papers can be found in the Sheffield University Library Special Collections (SULSC). For the catalogue see http://www.shef.ac.uk/library/special/hewins.html. It consists of correspondence, diaries, and other material relating to the Hewins family and his education at Wolverhampton grammar school and Pembroke College, Oxford.
Another major collection to be found at the British Library of Political and Economic Science (BLPES) at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where Hewins was the first Director. For letters and papers relating to the early years of the LSE, 1898-1904; see online catalogue. Likewise with the letters and papers relating to the Tariff Commission, 1904-21. Further correspondence along the same lines, 1901-1914 can be found in Coll Misc 0523. For letters relating to the Royal Economic Society, see Royal Economic Society (RES)/1/3/11-14. BLPES also holds papers relating to the Coefficients dining club, 1902-1908, of which Hewins was a member.
Correspondents
ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR, many letters, 1907-1917, Balfour Papers, British Library, ADD MSS 49779; SULSC
EDWIN CANNAN, some letters in BLPES Cannan/1020 and 1021
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, some letters, 1907, BLPES
WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM, 5 letters SULSC
HERBERT SOMERTON FOXWELL, 3 letters from in SULSC; 41 letters to in RDFC
ALFRED MARSHALL, 3 letters SULSC
SIDNEY AND BEATRICE WEBB, numerous letters to and from on the founding of the LSE, SULSC, and on the same subject and Tariff Reform, BLPES
Printed material
W. A. S. Hewins, The Apologia of an Imperialist; Forty Years of Empire Policy, (1929)
The Letters of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 3 volumes ( Cambridge, 1978)
ODNB
Photograph in W.A. S. Hewins above.