Anthony Blackwall (bapt.Tooltip baptised 17 July 1672 – 8 April 1730), was an English classical scholar and schoolmaster.

He was educated at Derby School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, graduating BA in 1695 and MA in 1698.

In 1706, he published an edition of the verse of the Greek poet Theognis, with a translation into Latin.

Blackwall's last work was The Sacred Classics Defended and Illustrated, or, An essay humbly offered towards proving the purity, propriety, and true eloquence of the writers of the New Testament (1725).

[3] With his second wife, the widow of the Reverend Thomas Cantrell (1649–1698), there were four more sons and a daughter: Henry (died 1728),[4] fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Robert (born 1704), a dragoon, John (baptized 1707, died 1762), an attorney at Stoke Golding, William (born about 1708), who died young, and Mary, who married John Pickering on 20 September 1733.