Present Representative, Charles Prideaux-Brune, Esq.
Basset of Tehidy.
The immediate ancestor of the Cornish Bassets was William Basset, who married in 1150 Cecilia, daughter and coheiress of Alan de Dunstanville, and the daughter of Reginald Fitzhenry, Earl of Cornwall, natural son of Henry I., who thus acquired the manor of Tehidy, which has ever since continued the residence of his descendants of the house of Basset. In the early part of the sixteenth century, John Basset appears to have been the chief of this ancient family: he married Frances daughter and coheir of Arthur Plantagenet, Viscount Lisle, natural son of King Edward IV. From Arthur, his eldest son, descended the Bassets of Heanton Court in Devonshire, extinct in the early part of the present century; and from George, the second son, the house of Tehidy, the elder branch of which were created Barons de Dunstanville in 1797. Extinct 1855.
Leland mentions "the right goodly lordship of Tehidy, and the castelet or pile of Bassets on Carnbray Hill."
See Gilbert's Survey of Cornwall, i. 486.
Arms.—Or, three bars wavy gules.
Present Representative, John Francis Basset, Esq.
Vyvyan of Trelowarren, in the parish of Mawgan, Baronet 1644. originally of Trevidern in the parish of St. Burian.
