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.

Early life and career Patrick 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 at St George's school in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, until he was 10, then at Bryanston School in Dorset. He studied philosophy and economics at the University of Bristol. 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 UK in 1992 to rejoin The Guardian as a features subeditor before becoming the editor of Guardian Weekly in 1993, in succession to John Perkin. and contributed once a fortnight to Radio New Zealand. Ensor's deputy editor, Natalie Bennett, became editor after he died.

Personal life Ensor was married to Judith Thomas, an artist and naturopath osteopath. He sang in a choir, swam, and played cricket, football, tennis and golf. He was diagnosed with auto-immune haemolytic anemia in February 2007 and died that July at his holiday home in Provence. He was survived by his wife, author and creator of Portals of Light Meditation Cards, and by his brother Jeremy. His niece, Josie, was the Middle East correspondent for The Daily Telegraph based in Beirut and has won the Marie Colvin Award and an Amnesty International Award. She is now based in New York for The Times. His nephew, Charlie, is currently Senior Media Manager for Action Aid based in London.