(6 July 1799 – 29 April 1884) was a British brewer
and member of the British House of Commons
. Under his leadership, Bass
became the largest brewery
in the world and the best known brand in the United Kingdom
. Bass represented the Derby constituency
in the House of Commons
as a member of the Liberal Party
between 1847 and 1883 where he was an effective advocate for the brewing industry. He was a generous benefactor of both Derby
and Burton upon Trent
where his company was based.
Bass was born in Burton upon Trent in 1799, the son of Michael Thomas Bass (senior) who had expanded the Bass brewery founded by his father William Bass
in 1777 and made it a major exporter to Russia
.
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
It’s the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It’s a quality to be proud of. But it’s a quality that many people seem to have neglected.
Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.
One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.
The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.