George Bassett (1818–1886) was the founder in 1842 of Bassett's, a confectionery firm in Sheffield.^[1] The company (after his death) introduced Liquorice allsorts. He went on to become Mayor of Sheffield (1876).^[2] Whilst Mayor, he had US President Ulysses S. Grant as a house guest.^[3] 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.^[3] He is buried in Sheffield General Cemetery with his second wife, Sarah Ann.^[3]

Bassett was the great-uncle of noted conservationist and countryside campaigner Ethel Haythornthwaite (1894–1986).^[4]