Arthur Henry Anstey CBE DD (1873 – 13 November 1955) was Bishop of Trinidad and Tobago 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).
Anstey was educated at Charterhouse School and Keble College, Oxford. After graduation, he was ordained in 1898 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 appointment to the episcopate) Chaplain to Proctor Swaby, Bishop of Barbados.
There is a school named after Anstey in Port of Spain.
References
- "No. 36309". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1943. pp. 24–25.
- "Rebah". Archived from the original on 2016-03-09. Retrieved 2009-06-05.
- Archbishop Anstey Long service in the West Indies The Times Wednesday, Nov 23, 1955; pg. 13; Issue 53385; col C
- National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives
- National Archives
- “Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
- "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900
- Malden Richard (ed) (1920). Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn). London: The Field Press. p. 1522.
- A cleric in the Caribbean
- "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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| Preceded byJohn Welsh | Bishop of Trinidad and Tobago 1918–1945 |
Succeeded byFabian Jackson |
| Preceded byEdward Dunn | Archbishop of the West Indies 1943–1945 |
Succeeded byWilliam Hardie |
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