| Authorised form of name | Basset; Alfred Barnard (1854 - 1930) |
| Surname | Basset |
| Forenames | Alfred Barnard |
| Dates | 1854 - 1930 |
| Nationality | British |
| Dates and places | Birth:
25 July 1854
Death:
Fledborough Hall, Holyport, Berkshire (05 December 1930) |
| Activity | Profession:
Barrister
Education:
Trinity College, Cambridge. BA (1877), MA
Career:
Called to the Bar, Lincoln's Inn (1879); published work on hydrodynamics (1888), on physical optics (1892), on cubic and quartic curves (1901) and on geometry of surfaces (1910) |
| Royal Society activity | Membership:
Fellow
Election Date:
6/06/1889 |
| Relationships | Only son of Alfred Basset; married Edith Sarah Irwin, daughter of Thomas Gustave de Chaundre of Rouen and Dublin |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1931 vol 131 pp i-ii signed by H L
References:
Lawrence Badash, 'British and American Views of the German Menace in World War I' in NR 1979-80 vol 34 pp 91-121 |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/34817383 |
| Royal Society code | NA8117 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| AP/69/3 | Stability and Instability of Viscous Liquids | 1892 |
| NLB/8/605 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Alfred Barnard Basset, Fellow of the Royal Society | 24 November 1893 |
| NLB/30/286 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Alfred Barnard Basset, Fellow of the Royal Society | 25 February 1905 |
| NLB/30/299 | Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Alfred Barnard Basset, Fellow of the Royal Society | 28 February 1905 |
| NLB/33/266 | Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Alfred Barnard Basset, [Fellow of the Royal Society], Grand Hotel, Folkestone | 26 July 1906 |
| NLB/34/643 | Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Alfred Barnard Basset, Fellow of the Royal Society | 21 February 1907 |
| NLB/38/401 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Alfred Barnard Basset, Fellow of the Royal Society, Fledborough Hall, Holyport, Berks | 29 July 1908 |
| NLB/38/541 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Alfred Barnard Basset, Fellow of the Royal Society | 16 September 1908 |
| NLB/38/455 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Alfred Barnard Basset, Fellow of the Royal Society, Fledborough Hall, Holyport, Berkshire | 7 August 1908 |
| RR/10/9 | Referee's report by William Mitchinson Hicks, on a paper 'On the motion of a sphere in a viscous liquid' by Alfred Barnard Basset | 26 December 1887 |
| RR/10/319 | Referee's report by William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, on a paper 'On the extension and flexure of cylindrical and spherical thin elastic shells' by Alfred Barnard Basset | 13 February 1890 |
| RR/10/375 | Referee's report by Alfred Barnard Basset, on a paper 'On Stokes’s current function' by Ralph Allen Sampson | 19 December 1890 |
| RR/11/10 | Letter from George Francis Fitzgerald, on a paper 'On the reflection and refraction of light at the surface of a magnetized medium' by Alfred Barnard Basset to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, Secretary of the Royal Society | 12 March 1891 |
| RR/11/9 | Referee's report by George Francis Fitzgerald, on a paper 'On the reflection and refraction of light at the surface of a magnetized medium' by Alfred Barnard Basset | 11 March 1891 |
| RR/11/110 | Letter from Alfred Barbard Basset, on his paper 'Stability and instability of viscous liquids' to the Secretary of the Royal Society | 25 March 1892 |
| RR/11/13 | Letter from Albert Barnard Basset, on his paper 'On the reflection and refraction of light at the surface of a magnetized medium' to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, Secretary of the Royal Society | 1 July 1891 |
| RR/11/109 | Referee's report by Horace Lamb, on a paper 'Stability and instability of viscous liquids' by Alfred Barnard Basset | 27 September 1892 |
| RR/11/11 | Second letter from George Francis Fitzgerald, on a paper 'On the reflection and refraction of light at the surface of a magnetized medium' by Alfred Barnard Basset to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, Secretary of the Royal Society | 16 March 1891 |
| EC/1889/05 | Basset, Alfred Barnard: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/Maull/000280 | Basset, Alfred Barnard | nd |
| NLB/3/1063 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to [John William Strutt] the Lord Rayleigh, [Royal Society] | 3 January 1890 |
| NLB/8/985 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Alfred Barnard Basset, Fellow of the Royal Society, 322 Oxford Street, W. | 5 February 1894 |
| RR/10/320 | Second referee's report by Horace Lamb, on a paper 'On the extension and flexure of cylindrical and spherical thin elastic shells' by Alfred Barnard Basset | 13 March 1890 |
| RR/11/8 | Referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'On the reflection and refraction of light at the surface of a magnetized medium' by Alfred Barnard Basset | 18 February 1891 |
| RR/10/364 | Referee's report by Alfred Barnard Basset, on a paper 'On the theory of free stream lines' by John Henry Michell | 6 March 1890 |
| RR/10/318 | Referee's report by Horace Lamb, on a paper 'On the extension and flexure of cylindrical and spherical thin elastic shells' by Alfred Barnard Basset | 23 December 1889 |
| RR/11/12 | Third letter from George Francis Fitzgerald, on a paper 'On the reflection and refraction of light at the surface of a magnetized medium' by Alfred Barnard Basset to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, Secretary of the Royal Society | 22 June 1891 |