Christopher “Sussexman” Pead, editor and chief writer of the New Ensign, archivist, scholar, student, historian, burner of the midnight oil and my good friend and companion for these past 12 years, passed away on Sunday 29th July 2025. Chris was 86.
“When an old man dies a library burns to the ground” as the saying goes. In Chris’s case it was at least two libraries and more likely three.
His focus and passion can be seen on this site. Scriptural law and true understanding as the rightful basis for sound living, English common law as the practical application of that and more than a cursory look at the problems besetting our people both external and internal. Chris was interested in it all and was actively working and enquiring into new areas right up until he took a fall on the 10th July.
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Some years ago I was present at a pantomime in which an incredibly dirty and unkempt beggar haunted one scene after another, receiving condescending kindness from the heroine, but from everybody else the disdain which his state appeared to warrant. Then, when the crisis of the play arrived, with the hero in direst need, there was a blinding flash which consumed the beggar’s rags and revealed him, bright-eyed, marcel haired, and in a suit of glittering armor, as no less a personage than our patron Saint—St. George for Merrie England. Gazing at the heroic figure thus disclosed I saw that his smug countenance was beyond all question Jewish. Here, expressed in unconscious symbolism, was indeed the apotheosis of the Jew.