Person

Basil Firebrace, 1st Baronet

supplier of wines to the royal household, Sheriff of London, and MP for Chippenham, Wiltshire

b. 1652 CE – d. 1724 CE World The North Atlantic Lands

Sir Basil Firebrace, 1st Baronet (1652 – 7 May 1724) was a supplier of wines to the royal household, Sheriff of London, and MP for Chippenham, Wiltshire, from 1690 to 1692. He was prosecuted for fraud and bribery, acquitted, and created a baronet in 1698.