Ancel Henry Bassett (July 1, 1809 – August 30, 1886) was a Methodist minister, author, editor, and historian who left the Methodist Episcopal Church to join the Methodist Protestant Church soon after its founding in 1830.
He became an influential leader of that denomination, editing one of its primary periodicals, the Western Recorder.
In 1875, the General Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church requested that he write and publish a denominational history, which was published in 1877.