CHRISTOPHER ANSTEY BIOGRAPHY
CHRISTOPHER ANSTEY BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
ANSTEY, CHRISTOPHER (1724-1805). —Poet, s. of Dr. A., a wealthy clergyman, rector of Brinkley, Cambridgeshire, was ed. at Eton and Cambridge. He pub. 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.