Reginald Bassett

Reginald Bassett (25 June 1901 – 9 July 1962) was an English historian and Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics.

Career Having left school to become a solicitor's clerk, at the age of 25 Bassett won a scholarship to study for a diploma at Ruskin College, Oxford, and from there proceeded to New College, Oxford. He was a lecturer under the Extra-Mural Studies Delegacy of the University of Oxford, lecturing mainly in Sussex. From 1945–50 he was a tutor at the London School of Economics for a course designed for students from trade unions. He was lecturer in political science from 1950 to 1953, Reader in Political Science from 1953 to 1961, and Professor of Political Science from 1961 to 1962.

Works The Essentials of Parliamentary Democracy (1935). Democracy and Foreign Policy (1952). Nineteen Thirty-one: Political Crisis (1958).