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2 unusual facts about Basset


Basset-class trawler

The first 20 vessels were ordered under the 1939 programme (the Tree class), 30 vessels under the 1939 War Emergency programme in two groups (20 Dance class, and 10 Shakespearian class), and a further 130 over the next four years (the Western Isles (or, simply, Isles) class).

Orders were placed at shipyards in Britain, Canada and India for the Royal Navy, the Royal Canadian Navy and the Royal Indian Navy.


Basset clarinet

The British clarinetist Thea King recorded both Mozart's Quintet and Concerto on the basset clarinet for Hyperion Records, coupled together on one CD.

Basset family

George Basset (d.1589), second son of Sir John Bassett (1462-1529), KB, of Umberleigh, was given Tehidy by his nephew Sir Arthur Basset (1541-1586), of Umberleigh.

Basset horn

Serenade on Carl Maria von Weber's Oberon for basset horn and two guitars, op. 28, written by Heinrich Neumann.

Bassett, Southampton

By the time of the Ordnance Survey of 1897, Basset had been renamed Bassett Green (with a double 't'), and a more westerly area (west of Bassett Wood) was identified as Bassett.

David Basset

Basset's life becomes more clear in 1687 when he became embroiled in a dispute with Antoine Parat, Governor of Plaisance (Placentia), Newfoundland, over transporting two Huguenots to Boston when the governor wanted to deport them to France.

Edmund Fortescue

They then proceeded to Modbury Castle, a seat of the Champernowne family, fired the house, broke in and took prisoner Fortescue himself, his brother Peter, Sir Edward Seymour and his eldest son, M.P. for Devonshire, Arthur Basset, ‘a notable malignant,’ and a number of other gentlemen.

Francis Basset

Francis Basset, 1st Baron de Dunstanville and Basset (1757–1835), his son, the first of the Barons Basset

Fred Basset

During mid 1976 a short-lived 5 minute television cartoon of Fred Basset was shown on the BBC, made by Bill Melendez Productions, voiced by actor Lionel Jeffries that was available on VHS.

Fred Basset, despite being a comic strip character, was read on radio regularly by Hamish Blake throughout Australia on the Today Network's Hamish and Andy Show (weekdays 4-6pm) on Friday afternoons (approx 5:50pm).

Gerard Basset

Gerard Francis Claude Basset OBE, MS, MW, MBA, is the owner with his wife, Nina, of Hotel Terravina, a New Forest Hotel near Southampton in Hampshire, United Kingdom.

Grand Basset Griffon Vendéen

The Grand Basset Griffon Vendéen is a long-backed, short legged hunting breed of dog of the hound type, originating in the Vendée region of France.

Harry Croxton

One of his daughters, Clara, won the Staffordshire ballroom dancing championship in 1937 with her partner, Basset Riseley, whose father was Lord Mayor of Stoke-on-Trent.

Illogan

It was part of an ornamental garden for the old Rectory now called Maningham - now a private house - built of bath stone in 1783 for the Rev John Basset, brother of Lord De ­Dunstanville whose monument is seen on Carn Brea.

James Basset

James Basset (1526–1558) was a gentleman from an ancient Devonshire family who became a servant of Stephen Gardiner (c. 1483-1555), Bishop of Winchester, by whom he was nominated MP for Taunton in 1553, for Downton in 1554, both episcopal boroughs.

To his unborn child, Charles Basset, he left the lease of his London townhouse near the Savoy Palace in The Strand.

Jeane Gardiner

The trial against Sarah Basset (or Sally Basset) in 1730 is also sometimes counted among them.

Joanna of Flanders

Joan of Brittany, Baroness of Drayton (1341 – aft. 20 October 1399), married before 21 October 1385 to Ralph Basset, 4th Baron Basset de Drayton - born at the onset of the Breton War of Succession

John Dawnay

John Dawnay, 5th Viscount Downe (1764–1832), MP for Petersfield and Wootton Basset, son of the above

Manor of Monkleigh

James Coffin left no male progeny by his wife Anne, only a daughter Jacquet, who married George Basset of Tehidy, Cornwall.

Michele Marelli

At the Donaueschinger Musiktage, with the Hilversum Orchestra conducted by Peter Eötvös, he performed the World Première of the "Let me sing into your ear" concerto for basset horn and orchestra by Marco Stroppa, which the composer actually dedicated to him and this performance was later recorded for the label Neos.

Ralph Basset

Basset was a native of Montreuil-au-Houlme near Domfort in Normandy, and possibly came to the notice of King Henry while Henry was count of Domfort during the reign of Henry's older brother King William II of England (1087–1100).

Richard Basset

Other sons were Ralph Basset, who held lands near Drayton, and William Basset, who held lands near Sapcote.

Suzanne Stephens

Stockhausen's opera cycle Licht includes a prominent basset-horn part in the role of Eve, also written for Stephens (Grass, Demus & Hagmann 2002, 108; Hoeprich 2008, 257).

Ulger

The pope appointed a panel of five bishops to decide the case—which really concerned the abbey's rights in Les Ponts-de-Cé—and in 1149 the bishopric was ordered to pay restitution to Basset of 1,000 marks.


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