OBITUARY

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 102, 1 May 1943, Page 4

OBITUARY

MRS. SIDNEY WEBB (Rec. 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, April 30. The death has occurred of Mrs. Sidney Webb, wife of Lord Passfield. Mrs. Sidney Webb, who preferred that name and so declined the title of Lady Passfield, was born in 1858 and was the eighth daughter of Mr. Richard Potter, one-time chairman of the Great Western Railway. She was privately educated and personally investigated social and industrial conditions. She married Mr. Sidney Webb in 1892, and

together they became known as a research team which over many years published studies ranging from local government and trade union history to the result of an investigation of Soviet Communism. She was also a member of numerous Royal Commissions and committees dealing with the poor laws, national registration, the machinery of government, and reconstruction after the last war. She was a tall, striking, handsome woman with dark eyes, and was once described as possessing "ardour, a bold imagination, and a swift, imperative sense of action."