Michael Bass, 1st Baron Burton

Bass
As depicted by "Spy" (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, November 1908
Statue of Bass outside Burton upon Trent Town Hall

Michael Arthur Bass, 1st Baron Burton,[1] KCVO (12 November 1837 – 1 February 1909),[2] known as Sir Michael Arthur Bass, 1st Baronet, from 1882 to 1886,[3] was a British brewer, Liberal politician and philanthropist. He sat in the House of Commons from 1865 to 1886 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Burton.[4]

  1. ^ "Michael Arthur Bass (1837 – 1909)". burton-on-trent.org.uk.
  2. ^ "The Civil Registration index of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales has his death in Q1, 1909, at St George's, Hanover Square, London. "BASS Michael Arthur [aged] 71 St Geo. H. Sq Vol.1a page 358".
  3. ^ Mair 1886, p. 10.
  4. ^ Geake 1907.