Arthur Anstey
Arthur Henry Anstey CBE DD[1] (1873 – 13 November 1955)[2][3] was Bishop of Trinidad and Tobago[4] 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).[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.[8] 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.[9]
There is a school named after Anstey in Port of Spain.[10]
References[]
- ^ "No. 36309". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1943. pp. 24–25.
- ^ Rebah
- ^ 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[permanent dead link]
- ^ 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[permanent dead link]
- ^ The History of Bishop Anstey Junior School
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