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ANSTEY, CHRISTOPHER (1724—1805)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 85 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANSTEY, See also:CHRISTOPHER (1724—1805) , See also:English poet, was the son of the See also:rector of Brinkley, See also:Cambridgeshire, where he was See also:born on the 31st of See also:October 1724. He was educated at See also:Eton and See also:King's See also:College, See also:Cambridge, where he distinguished himself for. his Latin verses. He became a See also:fellow of his college (174,5) but the degree of M.A. was withheld from him, owing to the offence caused by a speech made by him beginning: `-` Doctores sine doctrina, magistri artium sine artibus, et baccalaurei baculo potius quam lauro digni." In 1754 he succeeded to the See also:family estates and See also:left Cambridge; and two years later he married the daughter of See also:Felix See also:Calvert of See also:Albury See also:Hall, Herts. For some See also:time Anstey published nothing of any See also:note, though he cultivated letters as well as his estates. Some visits to See also:Bath, however, where later, in 1770, he made his permanent See also:home, resulted in 1766 in his famous rhymed letters, The New Bath See also:Guide or See also:Memoirs of the B . . . r . . . d [Blunderhead] Family . . which had immediate success, and was enthusiastically praised for its See also:original See also:kind of See also:humour by See also:Walpole and See also:Gray. The See also:Election See also:Ball, in Poetical Letters from Mr Inkle at Bath to his Wife at See also:Gloucester (1776) sustained the reputation won by the Guide. Anstey's other productions in See also:verse and See also:prose are now forgotten. He died on the 3rd of See also:August 1805. His Poetical See also:Works were collected in 1808 (2 vols.) by the author's son See also:John (d.

1818), himself author of The Pleader's Guide (1796), in the same vein with the New Bath Guide.

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