Arthur Anstey

Arthur Henry Anstey (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.