ANSTEY, CHRISTOPHER, a comic writer, who published in 1766 The New Bath Guide, a satirical poem, abounding in coarse humour, and which obtained a degree of popularity almost unparalleled at that period; so much so, indeed, that Doddsley the bookseller, with a liberality scarcely less remarkable, presented the copyright again to the author, in consideration of the profit he had realized by its sale. Anstey was the son of the Rev. C. Anstey, D.D. of Brinkley, and was educated at King's College, Cambridge, where, as a fellow, he continued to reside till the year 1754. Succeeding to some family estates at Trumpington, he made that place his home, and soon afterwards married. He died in 1805, aged eighty-one. His several poems were collected and published in 1808, in 1 vol. 8vo. He was honoured with a cenotaph in "Poet's Corner," in Westminster Abbey, a distinction which has been conferred in more instances than this with too little discrimination.