Background
BASSETT, Herbert Harry was born in 1874 in South Darenth, Kent.
BASSETT, Herbert Harry was born in 1874 in South Darenth, Kent.
Studied at Stationers Company’s School (before its removal from Fleet Street). Edited Crystal Palace Times at 19. Financial Times editorial staff 1895-1897.
Revised Fenn on the Funds (16th edition), 1898.
Editor Journal of Finance (monthly review), 1899. Compiled Men of Note 1900. Investor’s Blue Book.
1903-1905; Harmwortth’s Encyclopaedia (railways and steamships), 1905. Investor’s Shilling Year-Book since 1908. Contributor of articles to leading papers in New York, Chicago, Montreal, Calcutta, Tokyo, &c.
Director of Carl Hentschel, Limited. Fellow of Statistical Society and seventeen years a Member of Institute of Journalists. Writer on finance and kindred subjects, and editor of statistical compilations; Editor of Financial Review of Reviews since first number; and Editor of Bradshaw’s Railway Manual since 1904.
Cricket, collecting old prints and MSS. of Eynsford, a history of which village he published in 1908.
Spouse 1899, Eleanor, daughter of late George Dearing, of Shortlands, Beckenham, Kent.