ANSTEY, CHRISTOPHER English poet, was born at Brinkley, Cambridgeshire, on Oct. 31, 1724. He was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, where he dis tinguished himself for his Latin verses and became a fellow of his college (1745). Anstey belonged to the school of satirical and so cial verse founded by Swift and Gray. The New Bath Guide or Memoirs of the B . . . r . . . d (Blunderhead) Family . . ., a series of rhymed letters published in 1766, had immediate success, and was enthusiastically praised for its original kind of humour by Walpole and Gray. The Election Ball, in Poetical Letters from Mr. Inkle at Bath to his Wife at Gloucester (1776) sustained the reputation won by the Guide. Anstey died on Aug. 3, 1805.