Richard Basset or Bassett may refer to:
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Richard Basset
Richard Basset (died between 1135 and 1144) was a royal judge and sheriff during the reign of King Henry I of England. His father was also a royal justice. In about 1122 Basset married the eventual heiress of another justice; the marriage settle ...
(died between 1135 and 1144), royal judge and sheriff during the reign of King Henry I of England
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Richard Basset, 1st Baron Basset of Weldon
Richard Basset, 1st Baron Basset (died 1314), Lord of Weldon, was an English noble.
Richard was a son of Ralph Basset and Eleanor de la Wade. He was summoned to Parliament between 1299 and 1314. Richard was captured during the Battle of Bannock ...
, English noble
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Richard Bassett (priest)
Richard Bassett (7 November 1777 – 31 August 1852) was a Welsh cleric, thought to be the last Anglican clergyman in Wales to be associated with the Methodists.
Life
Bassett was born at Tresigin, near Llantwit Major in Glamorgan, South Wales ...
(1777–1852), Welsh cleric
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Richard Bassett (Delaware politician)
Richard Bassett (April 2, 1745 – September 15, 1815) was an American politician, attorney, slave owner and later abolitionist, veteran of the American Revolution, attorney, signer of the United States Constitution, and one of the Founding Fat ...
(1745–1815), American lawyer and politician
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Richard Bassett (Indiana politician)
Richard Bassett (March 28, 1846 – February 21, 1905) was a Baptist minister and a Republican Party (United States), Republican member of the Indiana House of Representatives from Howard County, Indiana, Howard County. He was one of four Afr ...
(1846–1905), Indiana Baptist minister and state legislator
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Richard H. Bassett
Richard Horace Bassett (February 21, 1900 – February 6, 1995) was an American impressionist and was the founder and head of the Milton Academy Art Department in Milton, Massachusetts, from 1945 to 1965. He studied extensively in Europe and in ...
(1900–1995), American impressionist painter
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Richard Bassett (author) (born 1955), British writer, historian and musician
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Richard Basset (JAG)
Richard Basset (died between 1135 and 1144) was a royal judge and sheriff during the reign of King Henry I of England. His father was also a royal justice. In about 1122 Basset married the eventual heiress of another justice; the marriage settle ...
, investigated claims Guantanamo guards bragged about abusing captives; see
Heather Cerveny
The Guantanamo Bay detention camp ( es, Centro de detención de la bahía de Guantánamo) is a United States military prison located within Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, also referred to as Guantánamo, GTMO, and Gitmo (), on the coast of Guant ...
See also
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SS Richard Bassett'', American ship, launched 1942, named after the Delaware politician
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