Christopher Hibbert

Christopher Hibbert, MC, FRSL, FRGS (born 5 March 1924), is an English writer, historian and biographer.

Born in Leicestershire to Canon H. V. Hibbert (d. 1980), Christopher Hibbert was educated at Radley College, before going up to Oriel College at the University of Oxford (MA). He served as an infantry officer in the London Irish Rifles regiment in Italy during World War II, was wounded twice and awarded the Military Cross in 1945.

From 1945 to 1959 he was a partner in a firm of land agents and auctioneers, and commenced his writing career in 1959.

He was awarded the Heinemann Award for Literature in 1962, and the McColvin Medal in 1989.

Christopher Hibbert is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Geographical Society, and has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Literature by the University of Leicester.

Hibbert is a member of the Army and Navy Club and the Garrick Club. He lives at Henley-on-Thames. He is married with three children.

Publications

include:

• King Mob (Longmans, 1958)
• Wolfe at Quebec (Longmans, 1959)
• The Destruction of Lord Raglan (Longmans, 1961)
• Benito Mussolini (Longmans, 1962)
• The Roots of Evil: A Social History of Crime and Punishment (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1963)
• Agincourt (Batsford, 1964)
• The Court at Windsor (Longmans, 1964)
• Garibaldi and his enemies (Longmans, 1965)
• The Making of Charles Dickens (Harper & Row, 1967)
• Waterloo(New English library Ltd, 1967)
• Charles I (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1968)
• The Search for King Arthur (American Heritage, 1969)
• The personal history of Samuel Johnson (Longmans, 1971)
• George IV (Vol 1 Longman, 1972, Vol 2 Allen Lane
• The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall (Morrow, 1975)
• Edward VII: A Portrait (Allen Lane, 1976)
• The Great Mutiny: India, 1857 (Allen Lane, 1978)
• The Days of the French Revolution (Allen Lane, 1980)
• The London Encyclopaedia with Ben Weinreb (Macmillan, 1983)
• Rome, the Biography of a City (Norton, 1985)
• The English: A Social History (Grafton, 1987)
• Encyclopaedia of Oxford (Macmillan, 1988)
• The Virgin Queen: Elizabeth I, Genius of the Golden Age (Addison-Wesley, 1991)
• Florence: Biography of a City (Norton, 1993)
• Cavaliers & Roundheads: The English Civil War, 1642-1649 (HarperCollins, 1993)
• Wellington: A Personal History (Da Capo, 1997)
• George III: A Personal History (1998)
• The Marlboroughs (Viking, 2001)
• Queen Victoria: a personal history (HarperCollins, 2001)
• Redcoats and Rebels: The American Revolution through British Eyes (Norton, 2002)
• Napoleon: His wives and women (HarperCollins, 2002)
• Disraeli: a personal history (HarperCollins, 2004)

References

• Crookes, John; Green, Alison; & Smith, Sarah, (editors), Debrett's People of Today, 14th Annual edition, London, 2001, p.906. ISBN 1-870-520-64-5