743 Francis Bassett

Constituency : Bedfordshire  1872-5

Francis  took  over  at  Bedfordshire  when  Francis  Russell  became  Duke  of  Bedford.

Francis  was  a  Quaker  banker  whose  bank  Bassett  &  Co  later  merged   with  Barclays.

Francis  resigned  in  1875  to  make  way  for  George  Russell, Bedford's  heir  who  hadn't  been  old  enough  at  the  time  of  the  by-election.

He  died  in  1899  aged  79 , a  few  months  after  suffering  a  paralytic  stroke.