ANSTRUTHER (locally pronounced Anster)  , a seaport of Fife-shire, Scotland . It comprises the royal and police burghs of Anstruther Easter (pop . 'Igo), Anstruther Wester (501) and Kilrenny (2542), and lies g m . S.S.E. of St Andrews, having a station on the North British railway company's branch line from Thornton Junction to St Andrews . The chief industries include coast and deep-sea fisheries, shipbuilding, tanning, the making of cod-liver oil and fish-curing . The harbour was completed in 1877 at a cost of £80,000 . The two Anstruthers are divided only by a small stream called Dreel Burn . James Melville (1556-1614), nephew of the more celebrated reformer, Andrew Melville, who was minister of Kilrenny, has given in his Diary a graphic account of the arrival at Anstruther of a weather-hound ship of the Armada, and the tradition of the intermixture of Spanish and Fifeshire blood still prevails in the district . Anstruther fair supplied William Tennant (1784-1848), who was born and buried in the town, with the subject of his poem of " Anster Fair." Sir James Lumsden, a soldier of fortune under Gustavus Adolphus, who distinguished himself in the Thirty Years' War, was born in the parish of Kilrenny about 1598 . David Martin (1737-1798), the painter and engraver; Thomas Chalmers (1780-1847), the great divine; and John Goodsir (1814-1867), the anatomist, were natives of Anstruther . Little more than a mile to the west lies the royal and police burgh of Pittenweem (Gaelic, " the hollow of the cave "), a quaint old fishing town (pop . 1863), with the remains of a priory .

About 2 M. still farther westwards is the fishing town of St Monans or

Abercromby (pop . 1898), with a fine old Gothic church, picturesquely perched on the rocky shore . These fisher towns on the eastern and south-eastern coasts of Fifeshire furnish artists with endless subjects . Archibald Constable (1774-1827), Sir Walter Scott's publisher, was born in the parish of Carnbee, about 3 m. to the north of Pittenweem . The two Anstruthers, Kilrenny and Pittenweem unite with St Andrews, Cupar and Crail, in sending one member to parliament .