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See also: English socialist and author, was See also: born in See also: London on the 13th of See also: July 1859
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He was educated at private See also: schools in London and See also: Switzerland, at the See also: Birkbeck Institute and the City of London See also: College
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From 1875 to '878 he was employed in a city office, but he entered the See also: civil service by open competition as a clerk in the War Office in '878, became
' See Leinendamastmuster See also: des X VII. and X VIII
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Jahrhunderts, Emil Kumsch (See also: Dresden, 1891).surveyor of taxes in 1879, and in 1881 entered the colonial office, where he remained until 1891
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In 1885 he was called to the See also: bar at See also: Gray's
See also: Inn
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Mr Webb was one of the early members of the See also: Fabian Society, contributing to Fabian Essays (1889); and he became well-known as a socialist, both by his speeches and his writings
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He entered the London County Council in 1892 as member for See also: Deptford, and was returned at the See also: head of the See also: poll in the successive elections of 1895, 1898, 19o1 and 1904
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He resigned from the civil service in 1891 to give his whole See also: time to the See also: work of the Council (where he was chairman of the Technical See also: Education See also: Board) and to the study of See also: economics
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He served from 1903 to 1906 on the Royal Commission on See also: Trade Union See also: Law and on other important commissions
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He married in 1892 See also: Miss See also: Beatrice See also: Potter, herself a writer on economics and See also: sociology, the author of The Co-operative See also: Movement in See also: Great Britain (1891) and a contributor to See also: Charles
See also: Booth's See also: Life and Labour of the See also: People (1891-1903)
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His most important See also: works are: a number of Fabian tracts; London Education (1904); The Eight See also: Hours See also: Day (1891), in conjunction with Harold See also: Cox; and, with Mrs See also: Sidney Webb, The Histpry of Trade Unionism (1894, new ed
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1902), See also: Industrial Democracy (1897, new ed
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1902), Problems of See also: Modern Industry (1898), See also: History of Liquor Licensing (1903), English See also: Local See also: Government (1906), &c
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Mrs Webb was a member of the Royal Commission on the Poor Law, and she and her See also: husband were responsible for the Minority Report (see PooR LAW) and for starting the widespread movement in its favour
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