Percy Anstey

Percy Anstey (25 February 1876 – 23 November 1920) was a British stage actor of the early 20th-century who later studied Economics and became a lecturer and college Principal in India.

He was born as Percival Louis Page in Paris in 1876, the son of Mary Louisa née Anstey (1838–1895) and Captain Andrew Mathew Adolph Page (1837–1890), an army officer[1] who separated from his wife soon after the birth of his son to go to Australia where he was appointed Secretary and Inspector of the Board for the Protection of Aborigines.

In 1902 he joined the company of John Martin-Harvey in a tour of the United States acting in A Cigarette Maker's Romance/Rouget De L'Isle, The Children of Kings and The Only Way.

[1][13] In 1912 Anstey was appointed tutor of the Workers' Educational Association with a £30 a year grant made to the class by the University of Bristol.

[13][16] In 1917 with Professors C. J. Hamilton and Gilbert Slater he co-founded the Indian Economic Association (IEA), the oldest and largest organisation of professional economists and policy makers in India.