Rudolph Anstead

Rudolph David Anstead (2 June 1876 – 6 January 1962) was an English first-class cricketer.

The son of the cricketer Walter Anstead, he was born in June 1876 at Wisbech. He was educated at Giggleswick School, before going up to Christ's College, Cambridge. He played minor counties cricket for Norfolk from 1897–99, making eleven appearances in the Minor Counties Championship. After studying natural sciences at Cambridge, he graduated in 1899. He worked as an analyst at a chemical plant at Hull in 1899–1900, before working as a researcher in a government laboratory at Bridgetown, Barbados from 1900–05, which included working for the Imperial Department of Agriculture in the British West Indies. Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed for 4 runs in the Europeans first-innings by Lakshmanan Rao, while in their second-innings he was dismissed without scoring by T. Vasu Nayudu. He was a fellow at the University of Madras and was made a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire in the 1927 New Year Honours. He retired in 1931 and returned to England, where he died at Bishop's Stortford in January 1962.