Bankie Park was reversed after a campaign by residents. Twinning Anstruther is twinned with: Bapaume, France (since October 1991) Notable inhabitants James Anstruther (d. 1606) was a laird of Anstruther and a courtier, and his son Robert Anstruther was a diplomat during the Thirty Years' War. Sir James Lumsden, a soldier of fortune under Gustavus Adolphus was born in the parish of Kilrenny about 1598. William Tennant's poem "Anster Fair" concerns the town's celebration. Thomas Chalmers, co-founder of the Free Church of Scotland, was born and raised in Anstruther-Easter, where his house has been preserved. The Goodsir brothers were born and brought up in Anstruther. They were John Goodsir (1814–1867), the anatomist; Harry Goodsir, surgeon on the ill-fated Franklin expedition, Robert Anstruther Goodsir who travelled to the Arctic searching for him, and Joseph Taylor Goodsir, who became a minister and theologian. David Martin (1737–1798), the painter and engraver was a native of Anstruther. Author Jessie Kerr Lawson (1838-1917) lived for a time in the town, and her sons Andrew Cowper Lawson (1861-1952), geologist, and James Kerr Lawson (1862-1939), painter, were born there. Andrew discovered and named the San Andreas Fault and the mineral Lawsonite is named after him. The family emigrated to Canada where another son, Abercrombie Anstruther Lawson (1870-1927), founding professor of botany at the University of Sydney, was born. Princess Titaua Marama, Chiefess of Haapiti in Polynesia lived in Anstruther from 1892 until she died there in 1898, aged 55. A blue plaque marks the house in which she lived. A book has been written about her life by the British-American author, Fiona J Mackintosh. Archibald Constable, Sir Walter Scott's publisher, was born in the parish of Carnbee, about three miles to the north of Pittenweem. Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart (1887–1970), director-general of the Political Warfare Executive during World War II, was also born in Anstruther. Belle Patrick (1895-1972), missionary was born in the twon. Sports writer Graham Spiers hails from Anstruther. It was the childhood home of BBC Radio 1 DJ Edith Bowman. Anstruther has become known as the base for the Fence Collective, a network of nu-folk musicians. Politics Traditionally, the two Anstruthers returned a single Member of Parliament (MP) together with Kilrenny, Pittenweem, St Andrews, Cupar and Crail. Currently, Anstruther is in the North East Fife UK Parliament constituency. The sitting member is Wendy Chamberlain of the Scottish Liberal Democrats. In the 2017 General