Basil Staunton Batty OBE (12 May 1873 – 19 March 1952) was an Anglican suffragan bishop in the 20th century.^[1]

Basil Batty was born into an ecclesiastical family on 12 May 1873: his father, William Edmund Batty, was Vicar of St John's, Walham Green.^[2] After education at St Paul's and Selwyn College, Cambridge,^[2] Batty began his ordained ministry^[3] as a curate at St Clement's, York.^[4] Following this he was Vicar of Medmenham, then Rector of South Hackney. Further incumbencies followed at St Gabriel's, Warwick Square,^[5] and Christ Church, Mayfair.^[6] He was also Rector of St Anne and St Agnes, Gresham Street.^[1] In 1926 he was ordained to the episcopate as the first Bishop of Fulham,^[7] a post he was to hold until 1947. A noted Europhile,^[8] he died on 19 March 1952.^[9]