Thomas Basset (judge)

Thomas Basset (died c. 1182) was a 12th-century English judge.

In 1167–8 he was an itinerant justice for Essex and Hertfordshire, and in 1169 he became a baron of the exchequer, a post he held to c. 1181.

In 1175 he was again an itinerant justice and in close attendance on the court, as he continued to be until 1181.

Basset was specially named as a justice itinerant on one of the new circuits on 10 April 1179.

[3] He is last mentioned in August 1181, and at the close of 1182 he had been succeeded by his son Gilbert.