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- The Bath Chronicle, Thursday, September 29, 1892
Death of Prebendary Bassett
The serious illness from which we have already reported the Rev. F. Tilney Bassett, Vicar of Dulverton, to be suffering, has, we regret to say, had a fatal termination, the death of the rev. gentleman being recorded in our obituary this week. Mr. Bassett, who was a late exhibitioner and scholar of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, graduated in 1852, and was ordained in that year by the Bishop of Oxford. Having held a curacy in Berkshire for five years, he was appointed deputation secretary of the Jews? Society, and was stationed at Cambridge. In 1860 he removed to Bath, holding a similar appointment, and lived here for several years. Besides rendering occasional assistance to his clerical brethren, he was for six years morning lecturer at Widcombe Old Church, and for a shorter period was chaplain to the Royal School. In 1872 he was presented by the Dean and Chapter of Wells to the living of Dulverton, and in 1885, in recognition of his learning and attainments, especially as a Hebrew scholar, the Bishop appointed him to a prebendal stall in the Cathedral. Mr. Bassett was the author of several works on the Old Testament Scriptures, wrote one or more books of poems, and was a regular contributor to The Churchman. He leaves a widow, four daughters and four sons.
At Dulverton on Monday, amid general signs of mourning, the funeral took place. The relatives present were Rev. H. Bassett, curate-in-charge of Westward Ho!; Rev.S.T. Bassett, vicar of Gooderston, Norfolk; Mr. H.E.T. Bassett and Mr. B.F.T. Bassett, of Cambridge, sons of the deceased; Miss Bassett, Miss A.T. Bassett, Miss M.T. Bassett and Miss d?M.T. Bassett, daughters. The procession from the Vicarage was led by the following surpliced clergy; Rev. E. Raba, Weston-super-Mare; Rev. F. Stonex, Bredbury, Cheshire; Rev. E.A. Purvis, Batheaston; Rev. J.S. Thelwall, Leamington; Rev. W. Wolkenberg, curate-in-charge of Dulverton; Rev. F. K. Warre, Exton; Prebendary Anderson, Winsford; Rev. W. Gurney, Brompton Regis; Rev. E. Binney ,R.D., Morebath; Rev. St. Bare Sydenham, Brushford; Rev. H.A. Locke, Honiton; and Rev. W. Harpley, Clayhanger; and Rev. W. F. Newman, Hawkridge, unsurpliced. Parishioniers present included General Couper, Colonel Trood, Captain C.B. St. John Mildmay, Mr. A.C.E. Locke, Mr. B.C. Marshall, Mr. Sowton Barrow, Mr. C. Stevens (Lord Carnarvon?s agent), Mr. F. G. Ross (deceased?s steward and superintendent of the Sunday school), and many others. At the churchyard gates the procession was met by Rev. J.J. Colman, rector of Holcombe, formerly curate of Dulverton, and the Rev. Dimond Church ward, or Northam, Bideford. Miss Hawkins played ?What are these?? (Stainer) as the body was being carried into the church, and the Dead March in ?Saul? at the close of the service. Three hymns were sung, one by the side of the grave, which was prettily lined with moss and white flowers. The coffin bore the inscription: ?Francis Tilney Bassett, M.A., born February 18th, 1827; died September 23rd, 1892.? At the close a muffled peal was rung on the church bells.
1871 British Census of 59 Pulteney St., Bathwick, Somerset
Francis T. Bassett 44 M Head Norwich Clergyman
Maria 40 F Wife Gooderstone, Norfolk
Catherine 16 F Daughter Bucklebury, Berkshire Scholar
Francis 14 F Daughter Bucklebury, Berkshire Scholar
Henry J. 12 M Son Cambridge Scholar
Alice M.T. 10 F Daughter Bath Scholar
Stuart T. 8 M Son Bath Scholar
Mildred B. 4 F Daughter Bath Scholar
Hugh G. 2 M Son Bath
2 Boarders & 3 Servants
1881 British Census of Vicarage Hill, Dulverton, Somerset
Francis T. Bassett 54 M Head St. Giles Norwich, Norfolk Vicar of Dulverton
Maria 50 F Wife Gooderstone, Norfolk
Katherine T. 26 F Daughter Backlebury, Berkshire
Henry H.T. 22 M Son Trinity, Cambridge Theological Student
Alice W.T. 20 F Daughter Bath Widcombe Parish
Stewart T. 18 M Son Bath Widcombe Parish Scholar
Mildred B.T. 14 F Daughter Bath Widcombe Parish Scholar
Hugh E.T. 12 M Son Bath Widcombe Parish Scholar
Bernard F.T. 8 M Son Bath Bathwick Parish Scholar
Francisca M.T. 6 F Daughter Bath Trinity Parish Scholar
Sarah Ann Blake 21 F Servant Molland, Devon Cook Domestic Servant
Emma J. Greenslade 23 F Servant Tiverton, Devon Housemaid Dom. Srvnt
Annie Curtis 14 F Servant Kingsbrompton, Somerset Childrens Maid
1891 British Census of 85 High Stree, Dulverton, Somerset
Rev. Stewart T. Bassett 27 M Head Widcombe, Somerset Clerk in Holy Orders
Alice Margaret 29 F Sister Widcombe, Somerset
Hugh E.T. 22 M Brother Widcombe, Somerset Student
Bernard F.T. 18 M Brother St. Andrew, Bath, Somerset Student
Francisca M. T. 15 F Sister Widcombe, Somerset
(Listed as Rev. Stewart Tilney Bassett)
& 2 servants
1901 British Census of Woodbine Cottage, Sunninghill, Berkshire
Barnard F.T. Bassett 28 M Head Bath, Somerset Bank Clerk
Modern English Biography by Frederick Boase (1908)
BASSETT, Francis Tilney (son of Henry Bassett). b. parish of St. Giles, Norwich 18 Feb. 1827; educ. Norwich gr. sch.; kept three terms at Trin. coll. Dublin; pensioner Gonville and Caius coll. Camb. 27 June 1849, college exhibitioner 1850, divinity prizeman 1851, scholar 1851-2; B.A. Camb. 1853, M.A. 1857; ordained deacon Dec. 1852 priest 1853; C. of Bucklebury, near Reading Dec. 1852 to 1857; assoc. sec. at Cambridge to London society for promoting christianity amongst the jews 1857-60, and at Bath 1860-6; Sunday mornign lecturer at Widcombe, Bath 1866-72; V. of Dulverton, Somerset 1872 to death; Preb. of Combe 12th in Wells cath. 1885 to death; author of Elohism and Jehovism. Bath 1864; The minutiae of prophecy and the minutiae of fulfillment 1866; The book of the prophet Hosea literally translated: with introduction and notes, critical and explanatory 1869; The catholic epistle of St. James: a revised text, with translation 1876; Collect hymns: or the collects for Sundays and festivals rendered into hymns, with an introduction and an historical notice to each collect 1877; An examination of some of the texts in the new testament that related to the death of our Lord Jesus Christ 1883 and 9 other books. d. Dulverton vicarage 23 Sept. 1892. John Venn's Gonville and Caius college ii 290 (1898); Guardian 28 Sept. 1892 p. 1427, 5 Oct. p. 1481.
The Expository Times
Francis Tilney Bassett
By the Rev. E.H. Blakeney, B.A. South-Eastern College, Ramsgate
The death of Prebendary Bassett removes from our midst a man possessed of a rare combination of excellences. “Not slothful in business, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord,” seems to have been the guiding principle in his life; certainly few have acted up to this high outward standard with more consistency of aim. Born in 1927, he proceeded to Caius College, Cambridge, in his twenty-first year, and, but for a very serious illness which nearly proved fatal, would doubtless have taken high honors at his university. As is was, he had to content himself with an ordinary degree. In 1852, the year in which he took his B.A. degree, he was ordained deacon; in 1957 he became officially connected with the London Society for promoting Christianity among the Jews, acting as deputation secretary in the two important centres of Cambridge and Bath; in 18972 he was appointed to the Vicarage of Dulverton, Somerset, wehre, on September 23 last, he died. In 1885 Mr. Bassett was given a vacant prebendal stall in Wells Cathedral – a tardy and inadequate recognition of his great and varied gifts both as preacher and writer.
Of his sermons delivered at Wells, at considerably number have been printed in the Church of England Pulpit; and many of his ablest theological pieces are to be found imbedded in the pages of that periodical. It would be a pious work to select a dozen or so of the sermons and papers, and print them together in a volume. Perhaps the most striking of all his contributions to the Pulpit, was a paper on that worried passage in St. Luck xxii. 19, where he regarded xxx as emphatic by position, and, therefore, as probably pointing a comparison o9r contradistinction between “my” and something else which is not expected – “Do this for My memorial,” i.e. a memorial ordained by Myself of my past Passion, and nucleus of promises which still concern the future.
Passing over several shorter works of his, e.g., a valuable little work, “Christ in Eternity and Time,” as well as several thoughtful pamphlets, notably one entitled “Elohism and Jehovism,” written nearly thirty years ago, at a time when few scholars……
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Bassett Family Association Database
1827 - 1892 (65 years)