Arthur Anstey

Arthur Henry Anstey CBE (1873 – 13 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 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 ordained ministry 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 the Port of Spain.[9]

References

  1. ↑ "Rebah". Archived from the original on 2016-03-09. Retrieved 2009-06-05.
  2. ↑ "Archbishop Anstey Long service in the West Indies", The Times, 23 November 1955, p. 13.
  3. ↑ National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives
  4. ↑ National Archives
  5. ↑ “Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
  6. ↑ "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900
  7. ↑ Malden Richard (ed) (1920). Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn). London: The Field Press. p. 1522.
  8. ↑ A cleric in the Caribbean
  9. ↑ "The History of Bishop Anstey Junior School" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-25. Retrieved 2009-06-05.


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