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 Killigrew, daughter of Sir Joseph Killigrew of Lothbury, London and Landrake, Cornwall.
In 1661 he was made freeman of Bath and was also a captain of militia horse for Somerset.
[1] Bassett died at the age of about 65 and was buried at Claverton.
She died without issue and he married secondly on 28 September 1685, Rachel Biddulph, daughter of Sir Theophilus Biddulph of Westcombe Park, Greenwich, Kent.