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Authorised form of nameBasset; Francis (1757 - 1835); Baron de Dunstanville of Tehidy and Baron Basset of Stratton
Dates1757 - 1835
NationalityBritish
Place of birthWalcot, Oxfordshire, England
Date of birth09 August 1757
Place of deathStratheden House, Knightsbridge, London
Date of death05 February 1835
ActivityEducation:
Harrow, later at Eton, and King's College Cambridge (MA 1786)
Career:
Freemason, 12 April 1779 at Somerset House Lodge No 2
Honours:
Bt 1779; Baron de Dunstanville 1796; Baron Basset 1797
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election09/04/1829
RelationshipsMarried (1) 16 August 1780 Frances Susanna Cox, daughter of John Hippisley Coze, of Stoneaston Somerset; (2) 13 July 1824 Harriet lemon 4th daughter of Sir William Lemon, and sister of 2nd Bart, Sir Charles Lemon FRS
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Freemasons and the Royal Society: Alphabetical List of Fellows of the Royal Society who were Masons' Library and Museum of Freemasonr, 2010 page 7-8
Notes:
On reverse of certificate: 'Mr Hennell to be admitted'; 'Captain Hutchinson, [...] elected at the late'
CodeNA3533
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1829/19Basset, Francis, Baron de Dunstanville of Tehidy and Baron Basset of Stratton: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MS/710/16Letter from Francis Basset, Tehidy, to Robert Were Fox, Raskrow, Penryn12 September 1809
MM/2/14Letter from Francis Basset, Lord de Dunstanville, Upper Grosvenor Street, to Sir Joseph Banks2 April 1802
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