Michael Arthur Bass, 1st Baron Burton,, known as Sir Michael Arthur Bass, 1st Baronet, from 1882 to 1886, was a British brewer, Liberal politician and philanthropist. He sat in the House of Commons fr
Michael Arthur Bass 1837 1909
As depicted by "Spy" (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, November 1908
Statue of Bass outside Burton upon Trent Town Hall
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Baron Burton, of Burton-on-Trent and of Rangemore in the County of Stafford, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1897 for the prominent brewer, philanthropist and Libera
Michael Bass, 1st Baron Burton
…1886, was a British brewer, Liberal politician and philanthropist. He sat in the House of Commons from 1865 to 1886 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Burton. Bass was born at Burton upon Trent, the elder son of Michael Thomas Bass and the great-grandson of William Bass, the founder of the brewery firm of…
Statue of Michael Thomas Bass
Bass caricatured by Spy for Vanity Fair, 1905