Notes for: John Anstey

From Venn's Alumni Cantabrigienses:
Adm. (age 18) at KING'S, a Scholar from Eton, July 3, 1777. 2nd s. of Christopher (1742), of Trumpington, Cambs. B. there. Bapt. Nov. 7, 1757. Matric. Easter, 1778; B.A. 1781; M.A. 1784. Fellow, 1780-92. Adm. at Lincoln's Inn, Feb. 1, 1781. Called to the Bar, 1784. Specially appointed to investigate the claims of the loyalists in the United States, 1785. A commissioner for auditing Public Accounts, 1806-19. Married -, dau. of Francis Pierson, Esq., of Mowthorpe Grange, Yorks., 1794. Author, The Pleader's Guide; a didactic Poem. Edited his father's works. Died Nov. 25, 1819. Brother of Christopher (1775), etc. (Eton Coll. Reg.; N. and Q., 6th S., IV. 324; D.N.B., where his career at Cambridge is not mentioned.)