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Lady Elizabeth Basset

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Name
  
Lady Basset

Role
  
Author

Died
  
November 30, 2000


Lady Elizabeth Basset, DCVO (5 March 1908 – 30 November 2000) was born Elizabeth Legge, daughter of the 7th Earl of Dartmouth.

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Educated at home, on 31 October 1931, she married Ronald Lambert Basset (1898-1972), senior representative of the ancient Basset family of Tehidy in Cornwal. She had two children, Bryan Ronald (1932–2010) and Peter Francis (1935–1954). During the Second World War, she ran a small farm in North Devon.

In 1959, Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, asked Basset to be a Woman of the Bedchamber.

She held that position until 1981. She was active as a Lady-in-Waiting from 1982–93. She retired at the age of 85. She authored a devotional book, Love Is My Meaning and four anthologies.

Death

Lady Elizabeth Basset died in 2000, aged 92, in London.

Books

  • Love is My Meaning - An Anthology of Assurance (1973)
  • Each in His Prison (1978)
  • The Bridge is Love: an anthology of hope (1981)
  • Interpreted by Love: an anthology of praise (1994)
  • Beyond the Blue Mountains: Wisdom and Compassion on Living and Dying (1999)
  • References

    Lady Elizabeth Basset Wikipedia


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