About George Bassett
Lived 1818 – 1886 (aged 67–68). George Bassett was a British politician.
George Bassett (c. 1818–1886) was the founder in 1842 of Bassett's, a confectionery firm in Sheffield. The company (after his death) introduced Liquorice allsorts. He went on to become Mayor of Sheffield. Whilst Mayor, he had US President Ulysses S. Grant as a house guest. 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.
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British politician
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George Bassett was born in 1818.
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