“ A pioneer in the movement for tariff reform, he lived to see the return of a Parliamentary majority largely in sympathy with his ideas, and it was on the day of his death that Mr. Runciman announced the emergency proposals which the Government have decided to take to deal with the present abnormal volume of imports.
Born near Wolverhampton on May 11, 1865, William Albert Samuel Hewins was educated at Wolverhampton School and at Pembroke College, Oxford, where he took honours in the mathematical schools,. And at once threw himself into the study and teaching of economics. ”

“ Cunningham and of the German economists, he was among the first to abandon the abstract economics of the dominant English school and to treat economics as part of the general history of political and social development. As an Extension lecturer and writer he made his mark first in Lancashire and Yorkshire, and then over a wider field, and by 1895 had attained a position which made his appointment as the organizer and first Director of the London School of Economics an appopreia6te and, as the event proved, a happy choice. ”