ANSTED, DAVID THOMAS (_son of Wm. Ansted_). _b._ London 5 Feb. 1814; ed. at Jesus coll. Cam. 32 wrangler 1836; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; Ley fellow of his college 1840–1851; professor of geology in King’s college London April 1840–1853; professor of geology at college of Civil Engineers Putney 1845; consulting geologist and mining engineer 1850 to death; F.G.S. 1838, Sec. 1844–1847; F.R.S. 11 Jany. 1844; edited _Quarterly Journal of Geological Society_; author of _An elementary course of geology_ 1850, _2 ed._ 1856; _Physical geography_ 1867, _5 ed._ 1871 and many other books. (_m._ 24 June 1848 Augusta Dorothea Hackett youngest dau. of Alexander Baillie of Green st. Grosvenor sq.) _d._ Melton near Woodbridge 20 May 1880. _Proc. of Royal society xxxi_, 1 (1881). ANSTER, JOHN (_eld. son of John Anster of Charleville, Cork_). _b._ Charleville 1793; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; scholar 1814, B.A. 1816, LL.B. and LLD. 1825; barrister 1824; registrar of high court of admiralty Ireland 1837 to death; granted civil list pension of £150 30 Aug. 1841; regius professor of civil law Trin. coll. Dub. 1850 to death; M.R.I.A. 12 Feb. 1838; vice pres. 1849–52; author of _Faustus from the German of Goethe_, 2 parts 1835–64 the first English translation and thrice reprinted in Germany. _Xeniola, poems including translations from Schiller and De la Motte Fouqué_ 1837. (_m._ 1832 Elizabeth eld. dau. of Wm. Blacker Bennett of Castle Crea, co. Limerick, she was granted a civil list pension of £50 3 Aug. 1870). _d._ Dublin 9 June 1867. _Dublin Univ. Mag. xiv_, 544–46 (1839), _portrait_.