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ANSTEY, CHRISTOPHER (17241805) , English poet, was the son of the rector of Brinkley, Cambridgeshire, where he was born on the 31st of October 1724. He was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge , where he distinguished himself for. his Latin verses. He became a fellow of his college (174,5) but the degree of M.A. was withheld from him, owing to the offence caused by a speech made by him beginning: `-` Doctores sine doctrina, magistri artium sine artibus, et baccalaurei baculo potius quam lauro digni." In 1754 he succeeded to the familyestates and left Cambridge ; and two years later he married the daughter of Felix
Hall
home , resulted in 1766 in his famous rhymed letters, The New Bath Guide or Memoirs of the B . . . r . . . d [Blunderhead] Family . .which had immediate success, and was enthusiastically praised for its original
prose
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