William Bassett may refer to: *

William Bassett (by 1531–52 or later) William Bassett may refer to: *William Bassett (by 1531–52 or later), MP for Maldon (UK Parliament constituency), Maldon *William Bassett (died 1553), MP for Derbyshire (UK Parliament constituency), Derbyshire *William Bassett (died 1586) (1507� ...

, MP for

Maldon Maldon (, locally ) is a town and civil parish on the River Blackwater, Essex, Blackwater estuary in Essex, England. It is the seat of the Maldon District and starting point of the Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation. It is known for Maldon Sea ...

* William Bassett (died 1553), MP for Derbyshire *

William Bassett (died 1586) William Bassett (1507 – 10 March 1586) was an Anglo-Welsh gentleman and parliamentarian from Glamorgan, Wales. Life William Bassett was born in 1507. His family had been settled in Glamorgan since the 13th century. He was the first son of ...

(1507–1586), MP for Glamorgan * William Bassett (died 1601), MP for

Staffordshire Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. It borders Cheshire to the northwest, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, Warwickshire to the southeast, the West Midlands Cou ...

* William Bassett (Royalist) (died 1656), MP for Bath * William Bassett (d. 1667), early New England colonist *

William Bassett (died 1693) Sir William Bassett (1628 – 25 September 1693) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1669 and 1693. Bassett was the son of William Bassett of Claverton, near Bath, and his second wife Elizabeth Killi ...

(1628–1693), MP for Bath *William Bassett Jr. (1624–1703), whose daughter

Elizabeth Proctor Elizabeth Proctor (née Bassett; 1650 – after 1703) was convicted of witchcraft in the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. She was the wife of John Proctor, who was convicted and executed. Her execution sentence was postponed because she was pregna ...

was accused of witchcraft in the 1692 Salem witch trials * William H. Bassett (born 1935), American actor *

William Bassett (USAF officer) William Bassett may refer to: *William Bassett (by 1531–52 or later), MP for Maldon * William Bassett (died 1553), MP for Derbyshire *William Bassett (died 1586) (1507–1586), MP for Glamorgan * William Bassett (died 1601), MP for Staffordshire ...

, a USAF officer who, contrary to a received order, decided not to launch missiles armed with nuclear warheads while stationed at Okinawa during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis

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