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Webb

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–noun
(Martha) Beatrice (Potter), 1858–1943, and her husband, Sidney (James), 1st Baron Pass⋅field [pas-feeld] , 1859–1947, English economists, social reformers, authors, and socialists.
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Webb   (wěb)   
British sociologist and economist who was a founder of the London School of Economics (1895). He and his wife, Beatrice Potter Webb (1858-1943), were central members of the Fabian Society and together wrote The History of Trade Unionism (1894) and other books.
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