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English author, historian and Army Officer (1924–2008)
Arthur Raymond "Christopher " Hibbert , MC FRSL , FRGS (5 March 1924 – 21 December 2008) was an English author, popular historian and biographer. He has been called "a pearl of biographers" (New Statesman popular historian of our time and undoubtedly one of the most prolific" (The Times [1]
Biography [ edit ]
Arthur Raymond Hibbert was born in Enderby , Leicestershire in 1924, the son of Canon H. V. Hibbert (died 1980) and his wife Maude. He was the second of three children, and christened Arthur Raymond.[2] Oxfordshire before he went up to Oriel College at the University of Oxford .[1] [3] MA [citation needed
He left Oriel College to join the Army , where a sergeant major referred to Hibbert as "Christopher Robin " (of Winnie the Pooh books) based upon his youthful looks. The name "Christopher" subsequently stuck. During World War II, Hibbert served as an infantry officer in the London Irish Rifles regiment in Italy, reaching the rank of captain. He was wounded twice and awarded the Military Cross in 1945.[3] [4]
From 1945 to 1959, he was a partner in a firm of land agents and auctioneers,[1] [4] Heinemann Award for Literature in 1962 for The Destruction of Lord Raglan [3] Royal Society of Literature .
Personal life [ edit ]
Hibbert lived at Henley-on-Thames , Oxfordshire, and was a member of the Army and Navy Club and the Garrick Club . He was married to Susan Piggford and the couple had three children: his literary executor Kate Hibbert, television writer Jimmy Hibbert and music journalist Tom Hibbert .[3]
He died on 21 December 2008, in Henley, from bronchial pneumonia at the age of 84.[1] [3] [4] humanist ceremony in Oxford, on 2 January 2009.[5]
The Road to Tyburn: The Story of Jack Sheppard and the Eighteenth Century Underworld (Longmans, 1957)
King Mob: The Story of Lord George Gordon and the Riots of 1780 (Longmans, 1958)
Wolfe at Quebec
Corunna ISBN 113571309X
The Destruction of Lord Raglan (Longmans, 1961)
Benito Mussolini . A BiographyMussolini: The Rise and Fall of Il Duce (St Martin's Griffin, 2008; Foreword by Tobias Jones )
The Battle of Arnhem (B. T. Batsford, 1962)
The Roots of Evil : A Social History of Crime and Punishment
Agincourt
The Wheatley Diary: A Journal and Sketch-book kept during the Peninsular War and the Waterloo Campaign (Longmans, 1964) editor
The Court at Windsor. A Domestic History (Longmans, 1964) later revised
Garibaldi and His Enemies
The Making of Charles Dickens (HarperCollins, 1967)
Waterloo : Napoleon's Last CampaignISBN 978-1853266874
Highwaymen
Charles I
London: The Biography of a City (Longmans, Green & Co., 1969)
The Grand Tour (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969)
The Search for King Arthur (Cassell, 1969) reprinted as King Arthur (Tempus, 2007)
The Dragon Wakes: China and the West, 1793-1911 (Longmans, 1970)
Recollections of Rifleman Harris ISBN 085052-005-3
The Personal History of Samuel Johnson (Longmans, 1971)
Tower of London ISBN 978-0882250021 "Wonders of Man" series
Edward : The Uncrowned King
Versailles (Newsweek, 1972) "Wonders of Man" series
George IV . Prince of Wales, 1762-1811
George IV. Regent and King, 1811-1830 Vol 2: (Allen Lane, 1974)
The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici (Allen Lane, 1974) reprinted by the Folio Society, 1998
A Soldier of the Seventy-First : The Journal of a Soldier in the Peninsular War (Leo Cooper, 1975) editor
The Illustrated London News : Social History of Victorian Britain (Angus and Robertson, 1975)
Edward VII : A Portrait
Memoirs of the Public and Private Life of Queen Caroline ; by Joseph Nightingale (Folio Society, 1978) editor
Disraeli and his WorldISBN 0-500-13065-5
The Great Mutiny : India, 1857 (Allen Lane, 1978), as Penguin Pocketbook: 1980, ISBN 978-0-14-004752-3 .
The Court of St James's : The Monarch at Work from Victoria to Elizabeth II (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1979) ISBN 0-29777631-2
The French Revolution (Penguin, 1980) ISBN 978-0-14004945-9 .
Greville's England: Selections from the Diaries of Charles Greville 1818-1860 (Folio Society, 1981) editor
Africa Explored: Europeans in the Dark Continent , 1769-1889 (Allen Lane, 1982)
Chateaux of the Loire (Newsweek, 1983) "Wonders of Man" series
The London Encyclopaedia Ben Weinreb (Macmillan, 1983) later revised, with Julia and John Keay (3rd ed. 2010)
Rome : The Biography of a CityISBN 0393019845
Cities and Civilisations (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986) ISBN 0-297-78934-1 reprinted by the Folio Society, 2003
The English: A Social History (Grafton, 1987) ISBN 0246121815
A Guide to Royal London (Pan Macmillan, 1987)
Venice : The Biography of a City
The Encyclopaedia of Oxford
London's Churches assisted by Tessa Street with photographs by Martin Black (Queen Anne Press, 1988) ISBN 0-356-12762-1
Redcoats and Rebels ISBN 978-0393322934
The Virgin Queen: The Personal History of Elizabeth I (Viking, 1990)
Captain Gronow : His Reminiscences of Regency and Victorian Life, 1810-60
Florence : The Biography of a CityISBN 0140166440
Cavaliers & Roundheads : The English at War , 1642–1649
The Story of England (Phaidon Press, 1994)
Nelson : A Personal HistoryISBN 978-0-14-016738-2
No Ordinary Place: Radley College and the Public School System 1847–1997 (John Murray, 1997) ISBN 0-7195-5176-5
Wellington : A Personal History
George III : A Personal HistoryISBN 978-0-14-025737-3
Queen Victoria : A Personal History
The Marlboroughs: John and Sarah Churchill 1650-1744 (Viking, 2001)
Napoleon : His Wives and Women
Great Battles: Agincourt (Phoenix new edition 2003) ISBN 1842127187
Disraeli: A Personal History (HarperCollins, 2004)
The Borgias and Their Enemies: 1431–1519
References [ edit ]
^ a b c d e Sheppard, Francis (27 January 2009). "Obituary: Christopher Hibbert" . The Guardian . Retrieved 28 August 2011 .
^ a b c Grimes, William (6 January 2009). "Christopher Hibbert, 84, Lively Historian, Dies" . The New York Times . Retrieved 28 August 2011 .
^ "Hibbert, Arthur Raymond [Christopher] (1924–2008), historian" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/100916 . ISBN 978-0-19-861411-1 . Retrieved 23 September 2012 .(Subscription or UK public library membership required.) Subscription needed.
Further reading [ edit ]
Crookes, John; Green, Alison; Smith, Sarah (2001). Debrett's People of Today (14th Annual ed.). London. p. 906. ISBN 1-870520-64-5 {{cite book }}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link )
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