Hamar Bass

Hamar Alfred Bass (30 July 1842 – 8 April 1898) was a British brewer, race horse breeder and a Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1878 to 1898.

Bass was born in Burton upon Trent, the second son of brewer Michael Thomas Bass and his wife Eliza Jane Arden, daughter of Major Samuel Arden of Longcrofts Hall, Stafford.

[6] Bass was a breeder at the Byrkley Stud and his horse "Love Wisely" won the Ascot Gold Cup in 1896.

They lived at Byrkley Lodge and Needwood House, Burton, and also at 145 Piccadilly, London.

Bass's son William succeeded in his uncle's baronetcy according to special remainder.