Sir Robert Charles Kirkwood Ensor was a British writer, poet, journalist, liberal intellectual and historian.
10 Facts About Robert Ensor
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Robert Ensor was educated at Winchester and Balliol College, Oxford where he achieved a first in Greats and the Chancellor's Latin verse prize.
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Robert Ensor was President of the Oxford Union in 1900.
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Robert Ensor became involved in left-wing politics, publishing a selection of writings of leading socialist theorists as Modern Socialism in 1903.
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Robert Ensor failed at his attempts to become a fellow of Merton, St John's and All Souls but later became a tutor at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
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Robert Ensor was 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.
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Robert Ensor 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.
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Robert Ensor married Helen Fisher of Manchester in 1906, and the couple had two sons and three daughters.
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Robert Ensor retired in 1953 and was knighted in 1955.
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Robert Ensor died in a Beaconsfield nursing home in December 1958, aged 81.