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- 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. Mrs. Basset will be remembered for her tales, as a singer and entertainer, and her departure from her Cornish home with her husband was greatly regretted. Her son, during the first Great War, worked in a local foundry, and her husband was long noted for his interest in horses and racing, but he eventually sold his Cornish property, including jewellery, and later his land, buildings and farms, these passing into the ownership of a London syndicate.
The news has now reached Cornwall that Mrs. Basset had died in London, on November 27, and that the strictly private funeral was announced without mourning by her own special request, and with a funeral service at Stockbridge, Hants, on Monday, December 1, with a memorial service on the same day in London.
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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Bassett Family Association Database
- 1947