George Bassett (c. 1818–1886) was the founder in 1842 of Bassett's, a confectionery firm in Sheffield.www.cadbury.com Our brands - Bassett's The company (after his death) introduced Liquorice allsorts. He went on to become Mayor of Sheffield (1876).The Sheffield Indexers: Master Cutlers and Mayors Whilst Mayor, he had US President Ulysses S. Grant as a house guest.Bassett Family Association Newsletter 2005 He was born in Ashover, Derbyshire, and married as his first wife, Sarah Hodgson, they had six daughters. He married as his second wife, Sarah Ann Hague: they had two sons. He is buried in Sheffield General Cemetery with his second wife, Sarah Ann.
Bassett was the great-uncle of noted conservationist and countryside campaigner Ethel Haythornthwaite (1894–1986).
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