- Find a Grave website Memorial ID 200982777
Plot Section IX... Grave Q2
Notes from website
Rev. William Basset, Rector of Frimley, was born in Uxbridge in Middlesex in 1853, the youngest son of David Basset and his wife Hannah (nee Beard). His father was a corn merchant.
At the age of seven in 1861 he was staying with his Aunt at the Hillingdon School for Ladies where two of his older sisters were pupils. His father died in 1869. In 1871 he was living in Bridge Street, Maidenhead with his mother and siblings.
He attended Oxford and became Curate at Frimley in 1880. His whole career was in this one parish of Frimley and he was responsible for overseeing the development of St. Paul?s, St. Andrews and St Mary?s. He was interested in the history of the parish and the church and gave lectures on both. He formed an attachment to the people in the parish and in WW1 wrote letters to the young men fighting at the front, which were published in the parish magazine.
He married Emily Maud Marriott Fry at Frimley on the 19th of January 1886. They had two children. Their eldest son Geoffrey, born in 1887 took after his father and became a Vicar. Their youngest son Richard is buried with them. He served in the Royal West Surrey Regiment for virtually all his life.
In 1910 his wife Maud wrote ?A Short History of Frimley Parish?, based on one of the lectures he gave on the old parish registers it also contains items on the murder of the former Rector George Hollest in 1850 and reminiscences of a Prize Fight held on Frimley Common.
William retired as Rector due to ill-health in April 1922 and they moved to a house they named Frimley Cottage in Streatley. He died there on the 3rd of January 1925. He was buried at St Peter?s in a ceremony led by the Bishop of Guildford, on the 7th of January 1925.
Research: Mary Ann Bennett
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Johnson Gibson Family History
1853 - 1925 (72 years)