Webb, Sidney James. Baron Passfield, 1859-1947
Archival location guide — where this economist’s surviving papers are held, their notable correspondents, and key published sources.
Born 1859 · died 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 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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Papers of Sidney and Beatrice Webb from before and during their married life. Much political correspondence, drafts of speeches, articles for publication, etc. There is material connected with their many interests, such as the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), the Fabian Society and the New Statesman. Passfield papers, British Library of Political and Economic Science (BLPES)
Correspondence and despatches on Malta, between Webb, Sir Harry Charles Luke and Sir John Du Cane, 1930-1931. Luke papers, Rhodes House Library, Oxford.
Some papers connected with various aspects of the Labour Party. Papers of the Labour Party, National Register of Archives (NRA) 14863.
Correspondents
ALBERT VICTOR ALEXANDER, 1st Earl Alexander, several letters, 1924-1939. Alexander papers, Churchill College, Cambridge.
HERBERT HENRY ASQUITH, Earl of Oxford and Asquith, six letters, 1895-1909. Bodleian, MS. Asquith.
WILLIAM HENRY BEVERIDGE, Baron Beveridge, many letters, 1905-1944. Beveridge papers, BLPES
JAMES BRYCE, Viscount Bryce, several letters, 1891-1918. Bryce papers, Bodleian.
JOHN BURNS, 24 letters, 1889-1908. BL Add. MS. 46287.
EDWIN CANNAN, five letters, 1889-1931. Cannan collection, BLPES
RICHARD THEODORE ELY, several letters, 1880s and 1890s. Ely papers, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
SIR ROBERT ENSOR, two letters, 1903-1912. Ensor papers, Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
FABIAN SOCIETY, many letters, 1891-1939. Fabian Society papers, NuffIeld College, Oxford.
HUBERT HALL, ten letters, 1902-1932. BLPES
JOHN LAWRENCE LE BRETON HAMMOND, six letters, 1923-1944. Bodleian, MS. Hammond.
WILLIAM ALBERT SAMUEL HEWINS, 18 letters, 1895-1903. Hewins papers, Sheffield UL
JOHN KELLS INGRAM, two letters, 1892-1906. Ingram papers, PRONI
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES, Baron Keynes, four items, 1920-1922. Keynes papers, KC, Cambridge.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES, Baron Keynes, five letters, n.d. Keynes papers, KC, Cambridge.
CHARLES ARTHUR PARKER, four letters, 1912-1913. Bodleian, MS. Eng. Lett. d269.
SIR HORACE PLUNKETT, nine letters, 1910-1928. Plunkett papers, Plunkett Foundation, Oxford.
Political Science Quarterly , 14 letters, 1888-1902.
Political Science Quarterly papers, Columbia UL, New York.
PAUL R. REYNOLDS, c. 150 letters, 1913-1946. Reynolds papers, Columbia UL, New York.
HERBERT LOUIS SAMUEL, 1st Viscount Samuel, 11 letters, 1892-1943. Samuel papers, House of Lords RO
EDWIN ROBERT ANDERSON SELIGMAN, 29 letters, 1890-1929. Seligman papers, Columbia UL, New York.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, ten letters, 1883-1938. BL Add. MS. 50553.
EDWARD DARWIN SIMON, Baron Simon, several letters, 1909-1940. Simon papers, Manchester City Library.
GRAHAM WALLAS, c. 150 letters, 1891-1928. Wallas papers, BLPES
Printed Material
BEATRICE WEBB, My Apprenticeship ( London, 1926).
BEATRICE WEBB, Our Partnership, ed. Margaret I. Cole and Barbara Drake ( London, 1941).
The Diary of Beatrice Webb , 4 volumes, eds Norman and Jeanne MacKenzie (London, 1982-5)
New Palgrave; ODNB; IESS XVI 487.
The Letters of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, ed. Norman Mackenzie, 3 volumes,, ( Cambridge, 1978)
Portraits: NPG; BLPES; see Beatrice Webb (above).