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DEATH OF MRS SIDNEY WEBB. LADY WHO REFUSED A TITLE. (By Telegraph-Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) LONDON, April 30. The death has occurred of Mrs Sidney (Beatrice) Webb. She declined to assume the title of Lady Passfield, when -her husband, as a member of a Labour Government, was elevated to
the peerage and took his seat in the House of Lords. Mrs Webb, who was born in 1858, was noted for her lifelong study of sociological questions and for her writings on these questions, independently and in collaboration with her husband, in many official and other reports and books. She was an earnest advocate of social reform and progress and a great humanitarian.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 May 1943, Page 3
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