Christopher Anstey
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Christopher Anstey (October 31, 1724 - August 3, 1805) was an English writer and poet.
Anstey was the son of a wealthy clergyman the rector of Brinkley, Dr. Anstey in Cambridgeshire, and educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge. He published in 1766 a satirical poem of considerable sparkle, The New Bath Guide, about the adventures of the "Blunderhead" family in Bath, from which Tobias Smollett is said to have drawn largely in his Humphry 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.