BASIRE, ISAAC, eldest son of Ven. Isaac Basire DD, Archdeacon of Northumberland, Rector of Eaglescliffe, co. Durham, and Frances Corbett; bapt. Egglescliffe, co. Durham 22 Nov 1643; at school under Busby two years (J. E. B. Mayor, ed., Admissions to St. John’s Coll. Camb., i, 165); St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 5 Jul 1664, aged 20; LLB 1669; LLD 1684; adm. Gray’s Inn 21 Jun 1664, called to bar 5 Jul 1671, ancient 16 Nov 1687; official of archdeaconry of Northumberland; m. 4 Jul 1672, as her fourth husband, Elizabeth, widow successively of Henry Hutton, Goldsborough, Yorks., of Sir Thomas Hutton, Kt, Brampton, Westmorland, and of Samuel Davison, Wingate Grange, Co. Durham, and second dau. of Right Rev. John Cosin DD, Bishop of Durham.