George Ensor
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George Ensor (17 December 1769 - 1843) J.P. was an eminent Irish author and lawyer.
Ensor was born in Ardress, County Armagh, Ireland and educated at the Royal School, Armagh followed by Trinity College Dublin. He was called to the Irish Bar in 1792. He married Esther Weld (sister of famous Irish explorer, author and painter Isaac Weld) on 7th January 1804. His father, George Ensor, and uncle, John Ensor, were architects who designed much of Merrion Square, Parnell Square, the Rotunda of the Rotunda Hospital, now the Ambassador Theatre (Dublin), the Hotel Saint George[1] and the Castle Hotel[2] - all in Dublin. They originated from Coventry and Wilnecote, England. George (Senior) was the first of the 'Irish' Ensors and John the first of the Rollesby Hall/New Zealand Ensors.
He was a well-known political writer and patriot, author of at least twenty books of educational and Irish interest, and the father-in-law of J. P. Prendergast the historian. He was a friend of Daniel O'Connell, Jeremy Bentham and James Mill. He accompanied John Stuart Mill (aged 14) to France in 1820. Was a grand juror and High Sheriff (1806) of County Armagh and died in the family home, Ardress House[3] in 1843.
[edit] Books Written and Published
The Independent Man (1806)
On National Government (2 vols., 1810)
National Education (1811)
Defects of the English laws and tribunals (1812)
Observations on the present state of Ireland (1814)
An Enquiry Concerning the Population of Nations containing a Refutation of Mr. Malthus's Essay on Population (1818)
Address to the People of Ireland on the Degradation and Misery of their Country (1823)
A Defence of the Irish and the Means of their Redemption (1825) DNB DIW DIH DUB
Of property and of its equal distribution as promoting virtue, population, abundance
Letters showing the inutility, and exhibiting the absurdity, of what is rather fantastically termed "the new Reformation"
Irish Affairs at the Close of 1825 (1827)
Anti-Union, Ireland as She Ought to Be (1831)
Before and After the Reform Bill (1842)
Principles of Morality
The Poor and their relief 1823
[edit] References
Oxford Biography Index entry George Ensor
Ensor, George (1769-1843), political writer Oxford Biography Index Number 101008822
