Christopher Hibbert has been called "a pearl of biographers" and "probably the most widely-read popular historian of our time and undoubtedly one of the most prolific".
12 Facts About Christopher Hibbert
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Christopher Hibbert was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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Christopher Hibbert was the second of three children, and christened Arthur Raymond.
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Christopher Hibbert was educated at Radley College in Oxfordshire before he went up to Oriel College at the University of Oxford.
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Christopher Hibbert was awarded the degrees of BA and later MA.
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Christopher Hibbert left Oriel College to join the Army, where a sergeant major referred to Hibbert as "Christopher Robin" based upon his youthful looks.
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Christopher Hibbert was wounded twice and awarded the Military Cross in 1945.
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Christopher Hibbert was awarded the Heinemann Award for Literature in 1962 for The Destruction of Lord Raglan.
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Christopher Hibbert lived at Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, and was a member of the Army and Navy Club and the Garrick Club.
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Christopher Hibbert 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.
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Christopher Hibbert died on 21 December 2008, in Henley, from bronchial pneumonia at the age of 84.
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Christopher Hibbert was cremated, after a humanist ceremony in Oxford, on 2 January 2009.