Philip Richard Sansom (19 September 1916 – 24 October 1999) was a British anarchist writer and activist.

He lived in Wandsworth in south London, the same area from which Colin Ward, a fellow member of the Freedom Press Group and a good friend, came.

[3] Later he trained as a commercial artist in West Ham Technical College, during which he came into contact with the published works of Herbert Read, the acclaimed art historian.

[7] From 1943 Sansom contributed articles and cartoons to the newspaper War Commentary (the title of which reverted in 1945 to Freedom).

[8] Sansom was found guilty and sentenced to nine months imprisonment, which he served in Wormwood Scrubs.