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Basset was baptised at Charlbury, Oxfordshire on 7 September 1757 and educated at Harrow School (1770–71), Eton College (1771–74) and King's College, Cambridge (1775). However, he left university for Italy in 1777, with the Revd. William Sandys as his cicerone. He passed through Rome, where he had his portrait painted by Pompeo Batoni (Batoni only finished it after Basset's departure, and - en route back to England on the Westmorland - it was seized by the French and sold to the Spanish). He returned to England in 1778, holding the office of Recorder of Penrhyn from that year onwards, and - like his father - being elected its Member of Parliament (between 1780 and 1796). The constituency returned two MPs, and one of his colleagues over that time was his cousin Sir John St Aubyn (son of Fra

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  • Francis Basset, 1st Baron de Dunstanville and Basset
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  • Basset was baptised at Charlbury, Oxfordshire on 7 September 1757 and educated at Harrow School (1770–71), Eton College (1771–74) and King's College, Cambridge (1775). However, he left university for Italy in 1777, with the Revd. William Sandys as his cicerone. He passed through Rome, where he had his portrait painted by Pompeo Batoni (Batoni only finished it after Basset's departure, and - en route back to England on the Westmorland - it was seized by the French and sold to the Spanish). He returned to England in 1778, holding the office of Recorder of Penrhyn from that year onwards, and - like his father - being elected its Member of Parliament (between 1780 and 1796). The constituency returned two MPs, and one of his colleagues over that time was his cousin Sir John St Aubyn (son of Fra
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  • Reginald Pole-Carew 1782-1784
  • Richard Glover 1790-1796
  • Sir John St Aubyn 1784-1790
  • with John Rogers 1780-1782
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  • Basset was baptised at Charlbury, Oxfordshire on 7 September 1757 and educated at Harrow School (1770–71), Eton College (1771–74) and King's College, Cambridge (1775). However, he left university for Italy in 1777, with the Revd. William Sandys as his cicerone. He passed through Rome, where he had his portrait painted by Pompeo Batoni (Batoni only finished it after Basset's departure, and - en route back to England on the Westmorland - it was seized by the French and sold to the Spanish). He returned to England in 1778, holding the office of Recorder of Penrhyn from that year onwards, and - like his father - being elected its Member of Parliament (between 1780 and 1796). The constituency returned two MPs, and one of his colleagues over that time was his cousin Sir John St Aubyn (son of Francis's mother's brother). Whilst serving as lieutenant-colonel of the North Devon militia, he marched Cornish miners to Plymouth, stengthened that town's defences and fortified Portreath, all of which helped counter a Franco-Spanish invasion fleet (gathered as part of the European theatre of the American Revolutionary War). As a reward, he was made 1st Baronet Basset, of Tehidy, county Cornwall on 24 November 1779. He married Frances Susanna Coxe, daughter of John Hippesley Coxe, at St Marylebone Parish Church on 16 May 1780, and finally graduated from King's College as a Master of Arts in 1786. He was made Baron de Dunstanville on 17 June 1796, and then Baron Basset, with special remainder to his daughter, on 30 November 1797. On his first wife's death, he remarried to Harriet Lemon (1777–1864, the fourth daughter of Sir William Lemon, first baronet, of Carclew, and Jane Buller) on 13 July 1824 but, though she survived him, they had no children. Dying without surviving male issue, his barony of Dunstanville became extinct as did his baronetcy, while the barony of Basset passed by special remainer to his only child, Frances, his daughter by his first marriage.
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