Beatrice Webb
The Right Honourable Baroness Passfield Webb, photographed c. 1875 Personal details Born Martha Beatrice Potter (1858-01-22)22 January 1858 Gloucestershire, England Died 30 April 1943(1943-04-30) (aged 85) Liphook, Hampshire, England Spouse(s) Sidney Webb Martha Beatrice Webb, Baroness Passfield (née Potter; 22 January 1858 – 30 April 1943), was an English sociologist, economist, socialist, labour historian and social reformer. Her husband Sidney became Baron Passfield in 1929. Along with her husband and numerous others, Webb co-founded the London School of Economics and Political Science and played a crucial role in forming the Fabian Society. She coined the term "collective bargaining".