Robert Richard Anstice, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Robert Richard Anstice

English clergyman and mathematician

Date of Birth: 04-Sep-1813

Place of Birth: Madeley, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 17-Dec-1853

Profession: mathematician, cleric

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Robert Richard Anstice (1813–1853) was an English clergyman and mathematician who wrote two remarkable papers on combinatorics, published the same year he died in the Cambridge and Dublin mathematical journal.
He pioneered the use of primitive roots in this field, anticipating the work of Eugen Netto on Steiner's triplets. Anstice studied at Christ Church, Oxford where he graduated in 1835, receiving a Master's in 1837.
Nothing is known about his life in the next ten years.
In 1846, he was ordained priest, and in the following year he became rector of Wigginton, Hertfordshire.
He died there in 1853