WEBB, BE AT RICE

(nee Porter) (1858), Eng. author and investigator of social and industrial conditions; member of Royal Commi ion on Poor Law and Unemployment (1905-9) and joint ed. of Minority Report; also member of various other government committees; contributed to Charles Booth’s Life and Labor of the People; ed. The Case for the Factory Acts (1901), The Case for the National Minimum (1913), Men and Women’s Wages, should they be equal? (1919); author of The Co-operative Movement in Great Britain (1891), and joint author with her husband (Sipney WxrBs) of The History of Trade Unionism. 1884). An Armer i can military officer and diplomatist, b. in Clave rack, New York. He was a lieutenant in the artillery and became adjutant in 1825. He served under General Scott but resigned in 1827 to take up journalism. He was connected with two morning papers from 1827-1859. He was the author of: Altowan, or Incidents of Life and Adventure in the Rocky Mountains (2 volumes) 1846. Slavery and its Tendencies, 1856, also a pamphlet on National Currency»