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George Basset

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George Basset
Member of Parliament for Launceston
In office
1563
1572
Member of Parliament for Bossiney
In office
1571
Personal details
Bornc. 1524 (1524)
Diedc. 1580 (aged 55–56)
SpouseJaquet Coffin
Children1+
Parents
RelativesBasset family
Katharine Basset (sister)
Anne Bassett (sister)
James Bassett (brother)
John Basset (brother)
Thomas Grenville (grandfather)
Robert Basset (grandson)
Henry Ashley (nephew)
Arthur Bassett (nephew)
Arms of Basset: Barry wavy of six or and gules

George Basset (c. 1524 – c. 1580), of Tehidy in the parish of Illogan, near Redruth in Cornwall, was an English politician.

Biography

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Basset was a Member of Parliament for Launceston, Cornwall, in 1563 and 1572, and for Bossiney, Cornwall, in 1571.[1] He was patron of the advowson of Camborne in Cornwall.[2] He was granted by the crown the estate of Columbjohn[3] in Devon, formerly a possession of the Courtenay family, following the 1538 attainder and execution of Henry Courtenay, 1st Marquess of Exeter, a relative of his step-father Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle.

He was the second son of Sir John Basset (1462–1528) of Umberleigh in Devon by his second wife Honor Grenville, who was the sister of Sir Richard Grenville the Elder (died 1550) and later wife of Arthur Plantagenet, Viscount Lisle (an illegitimate son of King Edward IV and thus an uncle of King Henry VIII). Basset's sisters were the courtiers Katharine Basset and Anne Bassett, the latter allegedly a mistress of Henry VIII and considered as a possible sixth wife for the king.[4] His next younger brother was James Bassett, MP, a Privy Counsellor to Queen Mary I.[5]

Basset married Jaquet Coffin of Alwington in Devon. His son and heir James Basset (1560–1603) inherited Tehidy under a deed of entail dated 26 March 1563 made by George's nephew Sir Arthur Basset. The deed granted Tehidy to Arthur's grandmother Honor Grenville, Viscountess Lisle for her life (she died in 1566), then to her son George Basset and his wife Jaquet Coffin and the heirs male of his body.[6]

References

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  1. ^ "BASSETT, George (c.1524-c.80), of Tehidy, nr. Redruth, Cornw. - History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org.
  2. ^ Vivian, p.47, he presented an incumbent on 15 March 1572
  3. ^ Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.170
  4. ^ The Mistresses of Henry VIII, Kelly Hart, p.197, The History Press, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England
  5. ^ Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.47, pedigree of Basset
  6. ^ Dunkin, Edwin Hadlow Wise, The Monumental Brasses of Cornwall with Descriptive, Genealogical and Heraldic Notes, 1882, p.60