Michael Bass, 1st Baron Burton
Michael Arthur Bass, 1st Baron Burton,[1] KCVO (12 November 1837 – 1 February 1909),[2] known as Sir Michael Arthur Bass, 1st Baronet, from 1882 to 1886,[3] was a British brewer, Liberal politician and philanthropist. He sat in the House of Commons from 1865 to 1886 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Burton.[4]
Career
Bass was born at
In 1882, he was created a Baronet, of Stafford in the County of Stafford, chiefly in honour of his father (who was still alive at the time and who had declined every honour offered to him) and with remainder to his brother
Lord Burton married Harriett Georgina, daughter of Edward Thornewill (one of the family behind the Thornewill engineering company in Burton), in 1869. He died in London in February 1909, aged 71. He was succeeded in the baronetcy according to the special remainder by his nephew William while the barony of 1886 became extinct. The peerage of 1897 passed according to the special remainder to his daughter Nellie Lisa. The widowed Lady Burton lived with her daughter in Grosvenor Square.[6] She died in 1931.
The Bass family seat was at Rangemore near Burton. King Edward VII visited Rangemore, the town and Bass Brewery in February 1902. It was Michael who got involved in creating the Stapenhill viaduct including a 120 ft cast iron suspension bridge, which was seen as an act of practical philanthropy, for the workers for when the river flooded it allowed the workers to still reach work via the canal.[7]
Like his father, Michael Arthur Bass was a generous benefactor to Burton, making many fine contributions to the town, including the
See also
References
- ^ "Michael Arthur Bass (1837 – 1909)". burton-on-trent.org.uk.
- ^ "The Civil Registration index of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales has his death in Q1, 1909, at St George's, Hanover Square, London. "BASS Michael Arthur [aged] 71 St Geo. H. Sq Vol.1a page 358".
- ^ Mair 1886, p. 10.
- ^ Geake 1907.
- ^ "Bass, Michael Arthur (BS855MA)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ "Grosvenor Square: Individual Houses built before 1926 Pages 117-166 Survey of London: Volume 40, the Grosvenor Estate in Mayfair, Part 2 (The Buildings)". British History Online. LCC 1980. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
- ^ "Whatever happened to the beers of Burton?". britishheritage.com. Retrieved 24 September 2021.
Further reading
- Kidd, Charles (1903). Debrett's peerage, baronetage, knightage, and companionage. London: London: Dean & son, limited. p. 184. Archived from the original on 7 November 2021. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
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- Mair, Robert Henry (1886). Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1886. London: Dean & Son. p. 10. Archived from the original on 7 November 2021. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - Geake, Charles (1907). The Liberal Year Book (3 ed.). London: Forgotten books. ISBN 9781334981180.
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs