Rudolph David Anstead (2 June 1876 – 6 January 1962) was an English first-class cricketer.
The son of the cricketer Walter Anstead, he was born in June 1876 at Wisbech.
He was educated at Giggleswick School, before going up to Christ's College, Cambridge.
[4] He was a fellow at the University of Madras and was made a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire in the 1927 New Year Honours.
[5] He retired in 1931 and returned to England,[1] where he died at Bishop's Stortford in January 1962.