Arthur Anstey

The Most Revd Arthur Henry Anstey CBE DD[1] (1872–13 November 1955)[2][3] was Bishop of Trinidad and Tobago[4] from 1918 until 1945; and for his last two years there Primate of the West Indies.[5]

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

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

Notes and references

  1. ^ London Gazette (pp. 24–25)
  2. ^ Rebah
  3. ^ Archbishop Anstey Long service in the West Indies The Times Wednesday, Nov 23, 1955; pg. 13; Issue 53385; col C
  4. ^ National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives
  5. ^ National Archives
  6. ^ “Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 071363457X
  7. ^ "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900
  8. ^ A cleric in the Caribbean
  9. ^ The History of Bishop Anstey Junior School
Anglican Communion titles
Preceded by
John Francis Welsh		 Bishop of Trinidad and Tobago
1918 – 1945		 Succeeded by
Fabian Menteath Elliot Jackson
Preceded by
Edward Arthur Dunn		 Primate of the West Indies
1943 – 1945		 Succeeded by
William George Hardie
Primates and Archbishops of the West Indies