John Anster (1793– 9 June 1867 age 73–74) was an Irish professor and poet.
He was born in Charleville, County Cork, and educated at Trinity College Dublin from 1814.
He contributed prose essays in the North British Review and 28 poems to the Amulet in 1826.
Eventually he became Regius Professor of Civil Law at Trinity College Dublin, having held office as registrar of the Admiralty Court, from 1837.
[2] In Blackwood's Magazine for June, 1820, Anster published fragments of a translation of Goethe's Faust, and reprinted in England and America.