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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Martha Beatrice
Webb was an English sociologist, economist, socialist and reformer,
usually referred to in association with her husband, Sidney Webb.
Although her husband became Baron Passfield in 1929, she refused to be
known as Lady Passfield.Beatrice Potter was born in Gloucester, the
granddaughter of a Radical MP, Richard Potter. In 1882, she had a
relationship with Radical politician Joseph Chamberlain, by then a
Cabinet minister. This was a failure, and in 1890 she was introduced to
Sidney Webb, whose help she sought in research she was carrying out for
her cousin, Charles Booth, whose Life and Labour of the People of London
categorised the poorest into class A: "Vicious: borderline semi
criminal" or class B "Casual earnings, very poor
