Anthony Nesbit

Anthony Nesbit (1778 – 15 March 1859) was an English schoolmaster and land surveyor.

Biography He was the son of Jacob Nesbit, a farmer of Long Benton, near Newcastle upon Tyne, where he was baptised on 3 May 1778.

Nesbit's own account, in the preface to his Arithmetic, states that he was educated "under the direction of some of the first commercial and mathematical preceptors in the kingdom", and that, having a vocation for teaching, he became a schoolmaster at an early age.

Nesbit lived successively at Whitby, Malton, Scarborough, Bridlington and Hull. In 1808–9 he was an under-master at Preston Grammar School, as appears from a communication to the Lady's Diary for 1809. In 1810 he describes himself on the title-page of his Land Surveying as "land surveyor and teacher of the mathematics" at Farnley, Leeds. About 1814 Nesbit set up a school in Bradford. He moved on c.1821 to Manchester, where his school in Oxford Road became well known

Anthony Nesbit died in Kennington Lane on 15 March 1859, and was buried in Norwood Cemetery.

Works Nesbit's books, which had a considerable reputation in their day, especially in the North of England, are: The couple had five children. The son John Collis Nesbit was the father of the author E. Nesbit. He and another son, Edward Planta Nesbit, participated in the writing of An Essay on Education.