Arthur Basset (1597–1673)

Arthur Basset (1597 – 7 January 1673) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1625 to 1626.

Basset was the son of Sir Robert Basset of Umberley, a colonel in the army. He subscribed at the University of Oxford on 11 June 1613 and was awarded BA from Exeter College, Oxford on 8 February 1616. He was a student of the Inner Temple in 1617 when he was of High Hampton, Devon. In 1625, he was elected Member of Parliament for Fowey. He was re-elected MP for Fowey in 1626.[1]

Basset died in January 1673. His grandson, John, was his principle heir due to the death of his eldest son in 1660.[2]

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Parliament of England
Preceded by
William Noy
Robert Cook
Member of Parliament for Fowey
1625–1626
With: Jonathan Rashleigh 1625
William Murray 1626
Succeeded by
Robert Rashleigh
Sir Richard Grenville


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