Christopher Bassnett
Christopher Bassnett was an English nonconformist minister.Life
He entered Richard Frankland's Rathmell Academy as student for the Presbyterian ministry on 1 April 1696. He was an intimate friend of Matthew Henry, who says in a manuscript diary, 20 July 1709, "recommended Mr. Basnet to Liverpool", and 1 August "he is inclined to accept."
He ministered to the congregation at Kaye or Key Street, Liverpool, then included in the Warrington presbyterian classis. He was incapacitated by illness from 23 March 1711 to 26 January 1712. He married, on 9 February 1713, Mrs. Cheney of Manchester, daughter of the Rev. Samuel Eaton. He assisted in establishing a school for the free education of poor children in Liverpool in 1716. He had John Brekell as a colleague from 1728. He died on 22 July 1744, aged 68.Works
- Zebulun's Blessing opened and applied, &c., 1714
- Church Officers and their Mission, &c., 1717.
