Education
University of Bristol.
University of Bristol.
He was the editor of Guardian Weekly from 1993 until his death in 2007. Ensor"s early journalism posts were at the Yorkshire Post, Oxford Mail, the Times Higher Education Supplement, Screen International and the Tower Community newspaper. He joined The Guardian in 1974 as a features subeditor and he became the Arts Editor in 1980.
He was associate/features editor of the Wellington, New Zealand newspaper The Dominion from 1985-1991, where he helped editor Geoff Bayliss "rejuvenate" the paper.
While at The Dominion he trained the poet Andrew Johnston as a subeditor. He returned to the United Kingdom in 1992 to rejoin The Guardian as a features subeditor before becoming the editor of Guardian Weekly in 1993, replacing John Perkin.
Ensor wrote for the Pacific Journalism Review in 2003, and contributed once a fortnight to Radio New Zealand. 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 Portuguese Elizabeth, South Africa, until he was 10, then at Bryanston School in Dorset. He studied politics and economics at the University of Bristol. 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.
