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- "Following Sir Francis Basset's death on 14 Feb 1835, Tehidy passed to his spinster daughter Frances Basset. The Basset barony died with her (22 Jan 1855). Tehidy was inherited in succession by three grandsons of Francis Basset's younger brother John Basset - John Francis Basset (died 9 Feb 1869), Arthur Basset (died 7 May 1870), Gustavus Lambart Bassett (died 24 Jul 1888) - then passed to the son of this last, Arthur Francis Basset. It was he who had to sell the estate to pay his gambling debts, and then took all the papers out of the estate and burnt them."
According to John Collins
The Indianapolis Star
Saturday, November 13, 1915
A sensation has been created in Cornwall by the announcement of the private sale of Tehidy estates, which have been owned by the Bassett family for 700 years. The Bassetts established themselves in Cornwall shortly after the Norman conquest. About a century later they obtained Tehidy by marriage with the heiress of the noted family of DeDunstanville. They were lucky in marrying a succession of heiresses in Devon and Cornwall after they had almost lost their fortune in the war of the roses. Francis Bassett was created a baronet in 1779, and in 1796 he was raised to the peerage by Mr. Pitt as Baron DeDunstanville. Like so many other peers, he followed the family tradition by marrying an heiress and left a daughter, who succeeded under a special remainder to the barony of Bassett, which had been created in 1797. On her death the estates passed to a collateral branch, and they have been owned for many years by A.F. Bassett.
Tehidy Park, near Camborne, comprises about 900 acres. The place was greatly improved about half a century ago by F.A. Bassett, who rebuilt the house, which contains a gallery of fine pictures, old masters and portraits. In the grounds is a striking memorial to Susannah, first wife of Lord DeDunstanville, who died in 1823. The estates include valuable mineral rights, notably the famous Dolcoath mine. The mines for years produced about $85,000 a year for the owner, but the return now is much smaller. The sale has excited a feeling of consternation in the district, when most of the farmers on the estates at Michaelmas received notices to terminate their tenancies within twelve months. FLANEUR
The Cornishman
Thursday, December 4, 1947
Death of Mrs. A.F. Basset
Formerly Miss Rebecca Trelawny
About fifty years ago Mr. Arthur Francis Basset brought as his bride to Tehidy Mansion, Camborne (after the deaths of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. G.L. Basset), Miss Rebecca Harriet Buller, the charming and popular daughter of the late Sir William Salisbury Trelawny, baronet....
Tehidy, it will be recalled, became a County Council hospital for the treatment of tubercular patients, and it has grappled worthily with this difficult and widespread disease. Part of the estate was acquired by the members of the Tehidy Golf Club, and many of the farms and dwellings were purchased by the occupiers; although it was regretted that the historic significance of the castle and monument on Carn Brea Hill had lost its significance, together with the connection of Tehidy with the Cornish tin and copper mines, with the death of Mr. Gustavus Lambert Basset and his wife, whose mansion was valued at £100,000, while the entire estate was more than quarter of a million.
Owing to the decline of Cornish mining, Mr. Arthur F. Basset negotiated a successful business deal, through Mr. Goddard and others connected with the estate, but he would have been welcomed as a leader in Cornish mining, business, social matters, and county life generally, with such a colleague as the charming lady of an ancient Cornish family, who has just died at the age of 72. Mr. Basset was the lord of Dolcoath and other mines, but his mineral royalties passed eventually to Tehidy Minerals, Ltd., of which Mr. Donald Thomas is now the chairman.
H.T.
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