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. Personal life 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. Ensor was teetotal and a vegetarian. He died in a Beaconsfield nursing home in December 1958, aged 81. References External links Presidents of the Oxford Union 1877 births 1958 deaths 19th-century British poets British historians British male journalists Independent Labour Party National Administrative Committee members Members of the Fabian Society Members of London County Council People educated at Winchester College Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Members of the Inner Temple Academics of the London School of Economics Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Oxford Fellows of Nuffield College, Oxford Knights Bachelor Academics of the University of Oxford British male poets