Arthur Anstey Explained

Arthur Henry Anstey (187313 November 1955)^{[1] [2]} was Bishop of Trinidad and Tobago^[3] from 1918 until 1945; and for his last two years there Archbishop of the West Indies (primate of all the Church in the Province of the West Indies).^[4]

Anstey was educated at Charterhouse School^[5] and Keble College, Oxford. After graduation, he was ordained in 1898^[6] and began his ecclesiastical career with curacies at Aylesbury and Bedminster.^[7] From 1904 he was principal of St Boniface Missionary College, Warminster and after that (until his appointment to the episcopate) Chaplain to Proctor Swaby, Bishop of Barbados.^[8]

There is a school named after Anstey in Port of Spain.^[9]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Rebah . 2009-06-05 . 2016-03-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160309051347/http://rebah.org/piccadilly.html . dead .
2. Archbishop Anstey Long service in the West Indies The Times Wednesday, Nov 23, 1955; pg. 13; Issue 53385; col C
3. http://archives.lambethpalacelibrary.org.uk:8080/Archives/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqSearch=RefNo=='W.Temple/1-62/28'&dsqCmd=Show.tcl National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives
4. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=109-aa_1-1_1-2&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18#-1 National Archives
5. [Who's Who (UK)|“Who was Who” 1897-1990]
6. "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900
7. Book: [[Richard Malden|Malden Richard (ed)]] . Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn) . London . The Field Press. 1522. 1920 .
8. http://library2.nalis.gov.tt/infofiles/collect/hist3/index/assoc/HASH1530/0812eca8.dir/doc.pdf A cleric in the Caribbean
9. Web site: The History of Bishop Anstey Junior School . 2009-06-05 . 2011-07-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110725024225/http://bishopansteyjunior.edu.tt/alumni_files/BAJS_Info.pdf . dead .