Robert Ensor, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Robert Ensor

British writer and historian

Date of Birth: 16-Oct-1877

Date of Death: 04-Dec-1958

Profession: poet, historian, journalist

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Robert Ensor

  • Sir Robert Charles Kirkwood Ensor (16 October 1877 – 4 December 1958) was a British writer, poet, journalist, liberal intellectual and historian.
  • He is best known for England: 1870-1914 (1936), a volume in the Oxford History of England series edited by George Clark.Born in Milborne Port, Dorset, he was the son of Robert H Ensor and his wife Olivia née Currie.
  • He was educated at Winchester and Balliol College, Oxford where he achieved a first in Greats and also the Chancellor's Latin verse prize.
  • He was President of the Oxford Union in 1900.
  • He became involved in left-wing politics, publishing a selection of writings of leading socialist theorists as Modern Socialism in 1903.
  • He failed at his attempts to become a fellow of Merton, St John's and All Souls (twice) but later became a tutor at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.In 1902 he became leader writer for The Manchester Guardian.
  • In 1905 he moved to London where he was called to the bar at the Inner Temple.
  • From 1909 - 1911 he worked for the Daily News and from 1912 - 1930 for the Daily Chronicle.
  • Ensor lived in Poplar, and from 1910 - 1913 represented the area on the London County Council as a Labour Party councillor.Following the closure of the Daily Chronicle in 1930, he retired from regular journalistic work, although he continued to contribute to various publications as an editor and reviewer.
  • In 1931 he took up a post as a lecturer in the London School of Economics, but a year later returned to Oxford where he acted as deputy to Arthur Salter, Gladstone Professor of Political Theory and Institutions.
  • George Clark commissioned him a volume of the Oxford History of England, covering the years 1870 to 1914.
  • Reviewer Richard Hammond noted that he devoted six of his fifteen chapters to 'Economics and Institutions' and 'Mental and Social Aspects', and "these are both well-informed and up-to-date." Published in 1936 as the final volume, Ensor's book has sold more copies than any other in the original fourteen part series.
  • He was subsequently made a research fellow of Corpus Christi College and a research lecturer of All Souls College in 1937 and a faculty fellow of Nuffield College in 1938. He was commissioned in 1937 to write a sequel to his volume of the Oxford History of England but he resumed his journalism during the Second World War with a weekly column on foreign affairs in the Sunday Times.
  • The book, a volume covering the years 1914 to 1945, was eventually written by A.J.P.
  • Taylor.Ensor married Helen Fisher of Manchester in 1906, and the couple had two sons and three daughters.
  • The family made their home at Upper Sands, near High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.
  • He retired in 1953 and was knighted in 1955.
  • He died in a Beaconsfield nursing home in December 1958, aged 81.

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