Richard BASSET, JUSTICE OF ENGLAND

                   Occupation: Justice of England
Note: Richard Basset succeeded his father as Justice of England, which high office he filled in the latter part of King Henry I's reign and through the whole of King Stephen's. In the 5th year of the latter monarch [1140], he was sheriff of Surrey, Cambridge, and Huntingdonshire, with Aleric de Vere, and he served the same office for Essex, Hertford, Buckingham, Bedford, Norfolk, Suffolk, Northampton, and Leicestershires. He m. Maud, only dau.and heir of Geoffrey Ridel, Lord of Witheringe, by Geva, dau. ofHugh Lupus, Earl of Chester, and had issue, Geoffrey, Ralph, andWilliam. He was s. by his eldest son, Geoffrey de Ridel, who,from his mother, assumed the surname de Ridel. [Sir BernardBurke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke'sPeerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 26, Basset, Barons Basset, ofWelden]