Bishop Arthur Henry Anstey

The Right Reverend Arthur Henry Anstey * Bishop of Trinidad and Tobago 1918-1945 (4th Bishop) * Archbishop of the West Indies 1943-1945
The Right Reverend Arthur Henry Anstey
* Bishop of Trinidad and Tobago 1918-1945 (4th Bishop)
* Archbishop of the West Indies 1943-1945

Arthur Henry Anstey CBE DD (1872 – 13 November 1955) was Bishop of Trinidad and Tobago from 1918 until 1945; and for his last two years there Archbishop of the West Indies.

Anstey was educated at Charterhouse School and Keble College, Oxford. After graduation he was ordained in 1898 and began his ecclesiastical career with curacies at Aylesbury and Bedminster. From 1904 he was Principal of St Boniface Missionary College, Warminster and after that (until his elevation to the Episcopate) Chaplain to Proctor Swaby, Bishop of Barbados.

There is a school named after Anstey in Port of Spain.

Preceded by: John Francis Welsh

Succeeded by: Fabian Jackson