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Frances Basset, 2nd Baroness Basset

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Frances 2nd


Died
  
January 22, 1855

Frances Basset, 2nd Baroness Basset (30 April 1781 – 22 January 1855) was a British peeress.

Baptised in St Marylebone Church in London on 23 May 1781, she was the only child of Francis Basset, 1st Baron de Dunstanville and Basset and his first wife Frances Susanna, daughter of John Hippesley Coxe. On her father's death in 1835, she succeeded per a special remainder to the barony of Basset. She died aged 74, unmarried and childless at her seat Tehidy Park. She was buried in Illogan in Cornwall, and with her death the barony became extinct. Her estates passed to the eldest son of a cousin.

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