Christopher Anstey 1678/9-1751

Christopher ANSTEY or ANSTY 1678/9-1751

Anstey's bookplate (British Museum Franks Collection 604)

Biographical Note

Born at Blewbury, Berkshire, son of William Anstey. BA St John's College, Cambridge 1700, fellow 1701]], MA 1703, BD 1710, DD 1715. Vicar of Lawford, Essex 1702, rector of Brinckley, Cambridgeshire 1715; he lived at Anstey Hall at Trumpington, just outside Cambridge.

Books

Anstey used an engraved armorial bookplate (Franks 604). The extent of his library is unknown; in his will, he left "my library of books and collection of medals" to his son Christopher.

Sources

• Will of Christopher Anstey, the National Archives PROB 11/787/2.
• Gambier Howe, E. R. J. Franks bequest: catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed to the ... British Museum. London, 1903-4.
• Merrett, Robert James. "Anstey, Christopher (1724–1805), poet." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
• Venn, J. and J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge, 1922.