A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices/Anstey, Christopher
Admitted 22 December, 1746.
Son and heir of the Rev. C. Anstey, D.D., of Brinkley, Cambridgeshire. He was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, where he was admitted Fellow and graduated 1746, but was prevented taking up his M.A. degree. In 1756, having succeeded to the family estates, he resigned his Fellowship, and devoted himself to the cultivation of letters and the duties of a country gentleman. In 1766, he published the work by which he is chiefly remembered, The New Bath Guide, a series of letters in verse, which obtained great popularity. He subsequently published The Patriot, a Pindaric Epistle, on Prize-fighting (1767); An Election Ball (1776), and other occasional verses, but these productions added little to his previous reputation. He died at Bath in 1805, and was buried in Walcot Church.