About Arthur Anstey
Lived 1872 – 1955 (aged 82–83). Arthur Anstey was an anglican priest.
Arthur Henry Anstey CBE (187313 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 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 ordained ministry 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 the Port of Spain.
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Archbishop of the West Indies
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Arthur Anstey was born in 1872.
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Arthur Anstey died on 13 November 1955.
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Arthur Anstey was an anglican priest.
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