Christopher Anstey

Christopher Anstey

(1724-1805) Poet, son of Dr. Anstey, a wealthy clergyman, rector of Brinkley, Cambridgeshire, was educated at Eton and Cambridge. He puborn in 1766 a satirical poem of considerable sparkle, The New Bath Guide, from which Smollett is said to have drawn largely in his Humphrey Clinker. He made many other excursions into literature which are hardly remembered, and ended his days as a country squire at the age of eighty.

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