William Bassett (c. 1602 – 1656) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1644.
He was at school in Colchester and was admitted at Christ's College, Cambridge on 15 January 1627 aged 15.
[1] His father bought Claverton, an estate of 1,300 acres outside Bath, in 1609 and moved there.
He was nominated to the county committee but he was disabled as a Royalist in 1644.
[2] Bassett married as his second wife Elizabeth Killigrew, daughter of Sir Joseph Killigrew of Lothbury, London and Landrake, Cornwall.