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See also:WEBB, See also:SIDNEY (1859– ) , See also:English socialist and author, was See also:born in See also:London on the 13th of See also:July 1859. He was educated at private See also:schools in London and See also:Switzerland, at the See also:Birkbeck See also:Institute and the See also:City of London See also:College. From 1875 to '878 he was employed in a city See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, but he entered the See also:civil service by open competition as a clerk in the See also:War Office in '878, became
' See Leinendamastmuster See also:des X VII. and X VIII. Jahrhunderts, Emil Kumsch (See also:Dresden, 1891).surveyor of taxes in 1879, and in 1881 entered the colonial office, where he remained until 1891. In 1885 he was called to the See also:bar at See also:- GRAY
- GRAY (or GREY), WALTER DE (d. 1255)
- GRAY, ASA (1810-1888)
- GRAY, DAVID (1838-1861)
- GRAY, ELISHA (1835-1901)
- GRAY, HENRY PETERS (1819-18/7)
- GRAY, HORACE (1828–1902)
- GRAY, JOHN DE (d. 1214)
- GRAY, JOHN EDWARD (1800–1875)
- GRAY, PATRICK GRAY, 6TH BARON (d. 1612)
- GRAY, ROBERT (1809-1872)
- GRAY, SIR THOMAS (d. c. 1369)
- GRAY, THOMAS (1716-1771)
Gray's See also:Inn. Mr Webb was one of the See also: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. He entered the London See also:County See also: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. He resigned from the civil service in 1891 to give his whole See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
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. He served from 1903 to 1906 on the Royal See also:Commission on See also:Trade See also:Union See also:Law and on other important commissions. 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 See also: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). 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 See also:conjunction with Harold See also:Cox; and, with Mrs Sidney Webb, The Histpry of Trade Unionism (1894, new ed. 1902), See also:Industrial See also:Democracy (1897, new ed. 1902), Problems of See also:Modern See also:Industry (1898), See also:History of Liquor Licensing (1903), English See also:Local See also:Government (1906), &c. 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 See also:Report (see PooR LAW) and for starting the widespread movement in its favour.
End of Article: WEBB, SIDNEY (1859– )
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