Arthur Henry Anstey (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 all the

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). Anstey was educated at Charterhouse School and Keble College, Oxford. After graduation, he was

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in 1898 and began his ecclesiastical career with

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at Aylesbury and Bedminster. From 1904 he was principal of St Boniface Missionary College, Warminster and after that (until his appointment to the

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) Chaplain to

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. There is a school named after Anstey in Port of Spain.The History of Bishop Anstey Junior School
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1873 births People educated at Charterhouse School Alumni of Keble College, Oxford Anglican bishops of Trinidad and Tobago 20th-century Anglican bishops in the Caribbean Anglican archbishops of the West Indies 20th-century Anglican archbishops Commanders of the Order of the British Empire 1955 deaths {{Anglican-bishop-stub