Mr. Anstie

A Mr. Anstie of Lombard Street, a Dissenter, was listed as a subscriber in 1778 to John Collett Ryland’s Contemplations on the Beauties of Creation.  He may have been a Baptist, for on 20 July 1806, a Samuel Anstie and his brother, Alfred Anstie, possibly relations of Mr. Anstie, were proposed for communion at Maze Pond (Maze Pond Church Book, 1784-1821, f.146v., Angus Library, Regent's Park College, Oxford). A Mrs. Anstie, from the Baptist meeting at Broadmead in Bristol, was proposed for communion on 26 April 1812 (ibid., f. 175v).