George Bassett
George Bassett was the founder in 1842 of Bassett's, a confectionery firm in Sheffield. The company introduced Liquorice allsorts. He went on to become Mayor of Sheffield. Whilst Mayor, he had US President Ulysses S. Grant as a house guest. He was born in Ashover, Derbyshire, and married as his first wife, Sarah Hodgson, they had six daughters. He married as his second wife, Sarah Ann Hague: they had two sons. He is buried in Sheffield General Cemetery with his second wife, Sarah Ann..
Bassett was the great-uncle of noted conservationist and countryside campaigner Ethel Haythornthwaite.
