almanac_ 1872, _portrait_.
ANSON, SIR JOHN WILLIAM HAMILTON, 2 Baronet. _b._ London 26 Dec.
1816; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.; succeeded 13 Jany. 1847.
_d._ Royal hotel Wigan 2 Aug. 1873 2 hours after accident at Wigan
junction station of London and North Western railway. _I.L.N.
lxiii_, 134, 135 (1873).
ANSTEAD, THOMAS. _b._ Twickenham 9 Aug. 1840; a fast round-armed
bowler; engaged at the Oval, London 1866; and at Oatlands park
club, Weybridge 1869 to death. _d._ Weybridge 21 July 1875.
ANSTED, DAVID THOMAS (_son of Wm. Ansted_). _b._ London 5 Feb. 1814;
ed. at Jesus coll. Cam. 32 wrangler 1836; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839;
Ley fellow of his college 1840–1851; professor of geology in
King’s college London April 1840–1853; professor of geology at
college of Civil Engineers Putney 1845; consulting geologist and
mining engineer 1850 to death; F.G.S. 1838, Sec. 1844–1847; F.R.S.
11 Jany. 1844; edited _Quarterly Journal of Geological Society_;
author of _An elementary course of geology_ 1850, _2 ed._ 1856;
_Physical geography_ 1867, _5 ed._ 1871 and many other books.
(_m._ 24 June 1848 Augusta Dorothea Hackett youngest dau. of
Alexander Baillie of Green st. Grosvenor sq.) _d._ Melton near
Woodbridge 20 May 1880. _Proc. of Royal society xxxi_, 1 (1881).
ANSTER, JOHN (_eld. son of John Anster of Charleville, Cork_). _b._
Charleville 1793; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; scholar 1814, B.A.
1816, LL.B. and LLD. 1825; barrister 1824; registrar of high court
of admiralty Ireland 1837 to death; granted civil list pension of
£150 30 Aug. 1841; regius professor of civil law Trin. coll. Dub.
1850 to death; M.R.I.A. 12 Feb. 1838; vice pres. 1849–52; author
of _Faustus from the German of Goethe_, 2 parts 1835–64 the first
English translation and thrice reprinted in Germany. _Xeniola,
poems including translations from Schiller and De la Motte Fouqué_