Joseph Anstice (1808 – 29 February 1836) was an English classical scholar, and for four years professor of classical literature in King's College London.
Anstice born at Madeley Wood Hall, Madeley, Shropshire,[1] second son of William Anstice, a local mine owner.
He was educated at a private school at Enmore, Somerset,[2] and at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford (where he was president of the Oxford Union[3]), taking his BA on 3 February 1831, and M.A.
In 1831 he was appointed professor of classical literature in King's College, London,[4] a post which he resigned in 1835 from ill-health.
[5] He published:[5] In addition, Anstice wrote over fifty hymns, mostly during his dying period in Torquay.