Frank Anstey Politician

Not to be confused with F. Anstey, the pseudonym of British author Thomas Anstey GuthrieFrancis George "Frank" Anstey (18 August 1865 – 31 October 1940), Australian politician, served 38 years as a Labor member of the Victorian and Commonwealth parliaments.Anstey was born in London, England, the son of an iron-miner, who died five months before he was born, and had little formal education. He stowed away on a passenger ship when he was 11, and arrived in Melbourne in 1877. He spent ten years working on ships to the South Pacific islands. After spending a period as an itinerant worker (a "swaggie" in Australian slang), he moved to Sale, where he met Katherine Mary Bell McColl and they married in 1887—they had two sons. He became a cleaner in Melbourne, where he soon became involved in politics. He worked on the Melbourne tramways and became President of the Tramways Employees Union. Self-educated, he wrote extensively for Labor newspapers such as Tocsin and Labor Call.

Personal facts

Alias (AKA)	Anstey Frank
Birth date	August 18, 1865
Birth place	England , London
Date of death	October 31, 1940
Place of death	Mount Dandenong Victoria , Australia