Sidney James Webb, Baron Passfield
(1859-1947), Politician; MP for Seaham, social reformer, economist and a co-founder of the London School of EconomicsSitter in 90 portraits
Political and social reformer; Labour MP for Seaham (1922-9) and President of the Board of Trade (1924); with his wife Beatrice founded the London School of Economics and Political Science (1895) and the New Statesman (1913); shown signalling 'the inevitability of gradualness' marking the advance of socialism.
Sidney James Webb, Baron Passfield; Sidney and Beatrice Webb with relatives
by Allan Chappelow
sepia vintage print, August 1942
NPG x12673
Sidney James Webb, Baron Passfield
by Walter Stoneman
whole-plate glass negative, 1924
NPG x31562
Sidney James Webb, Baron Passfield
by Walter Stoneman
whole-plate glass negative, 1924
NPG x31563
Sidney James Webb, Baron Passfield
by Walter Stoneman
whole-plate glass negative, 1924
NPG x31564
Sidney James Webb, Baron Passfield
by Elliott & Fry
half-plate glass negative, 1930s
NPG x21161
Sidney James Webb, Baron Passfield
by Elliott & Fry
half-plate copy negative, 1930s
NPG x82138
Sidney James Webb, Baron Passfield
by Elliott & Fry
half-plate glass negative, 11 December 1951
NPG x100402
Sidney James Webb, Baron Passfield
after Jessie Holliday
photographic print, (circa 1909)
NPG D32746
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