Patrick Ensor

Patrick Ensor (2 December 1946 – 1 July 2007) was a British newspaper journalist. He was the editor of Guardian Weekly from 1993 until his death in 2007.

Career

Ensor's early journalism posts were at the Yorkshire Post, Oxford Mail, the Times Higher Education Supplement, Screen International and the Tower Community newspaper.[1] He joined The Guardian in 1974[2] as a features subeditor and he became the Arts Editor in 1980.[1] He was associate/features editor of the Wellington, New Zealand newspaper The Dominion from 1985–91,[2] where he helped editor Geoff Bayliss "rejuvenate" the paper.[3] While at The Dominion he trained the poet Andrew Johnston as a subeditor.[4] He returned to the UK in 1992 to rejoin The Guardian as a features subeditor before becoming the editor of Guardian Weekly in 1993, replacing John Perkin.[1] Ensor wrote for the Pacific Journalism Review in 2003,[5] and contributed once a fortnight to Radio New Zealand.[1]

Alan Rusbridger said of Ensor that "He was a punctilious editor of the old school as well as a quick-witted, tireless and kind colleague."[1] Roger Alton said he was "a ferociously sharp journalist, clever, dedicated, hugely industrious - shamingly so to many of his colleagues like me - and hugely creative."[6] Ensor's deputy editor, Natalie Bennett, became editor after he died.

Personal life and education

Ensor was born in December 1946 in Bournemouth. His father, Michael de Normann Ensor, was a civil servant in Gold Coast (now Ghana), whose mother was the theosophical educationist Beatrice Ensor. He was educated in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, until he was 10, then at Bryanston School in Dorset. He studied politics and economics at the University of Bristol.[1][2]

He was married to Judith, an artist and osteopath. He sang in a choir, swam, and played cricket, tennis and golf. He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in February 2007 and died that July at his holiday home in Provence.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 McNay, Michael (3 July 2007). "Obituary: Patrick Ensor". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 November 2012.
  2. 1 2 3 Cohen, David (26 July 2007). "Dynamic Guardian Weekly editor left legacy here". National Business Review. New Zealand. Retrieved 7 November 2012.
  3. ↑ "Obituary" (PDF). Traders. British-New Zealand Trade Council. August 2007. Retrieved 7 November 2012.
  4. ↑ Rabbitt, Lindsay. "At sunset". New Zealand Listener. 24 March 2007. Retrieved 18 November 2012.
  5. ↑ "Pacific Journalism Review features Iraq media war". Pacific Media Watch. AUT Communication Studies. 21 September 2003. Retrieved 7 November 2012.
  6. ↑ Alton, Roger (4 July 2007). "Appreciation - Patrick Ensor". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 November 2012.

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Preceded by
John Perkin		 Editor of The Guardian Weekly
1993–2007 		Succeeded by
Natalie Bennett
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