Christopher Hibbert

**Christopher Hibbert** (gebore **Arthur Raymond Hibbert**) (5 Maart 1924 – 21 Desember 2008), was 'n Engelse skrywer, geskiedkundige en biograaf. Hy is "die pêrel van biograwe" genoem." (*New Statesman*) en "waarskynlik die mees wydgelese geskiedkundige van die huidige tydvak en ongetwyfeld een van die mees bedrywigste" (*The Times*). Hibbert was 'n lid van die Koninklike Genootskap van Literatuur en die outeur van verskeie boeke, insluitende *The Story of England*, *Disraeli*, *Edward VII*, *George IV*, *The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici*, en *Cavaliers and Roundheads*.

## Biografie 
Arthur Raymond Hibbert is in 1924 in Enderby, Leicestershire, gebore as die seun van die H. V. Hibbert, 'n priester, en sy vrou Maude. Hy ontvang sy opvoeding aan Radley Kollege, voordat hy inskryf aan Oriel Kollege, Universiteit van Oxford. en die McColvin-medalje van die Biblioteekgenootskap in 1989. Christopher Hibbert was 'n genoot van die Koninklike Genootskap van Literatuur en die Koninklike Geografiese Genootskap. 'n Ere-doktoraat in letterkunde is deur die Universiteit van Leicester aan hom toegeken.

## Persoonlike Lewe 
Hibbert het in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire gewoon, en was 'n lid van die Leër- en Vlootklub en die Garrick Klub. Hy was getroud met Susan Piggford en die paartjie het drie kinders gehad; sy literêre eksekuteur Kate Hibbert, die televisieskrywer Jimmy Hibbert en die musiekjoernalis Tom Hibbert. Hy is op 2 Januarie 2009, na 'n seremonie van die Britse Humanistiese Assosiasie in Oxford, veras.

## Werke 
* *The Road to Tyburn* (New World, 1957)
* *King Mob* (Longmans, 1958)
* *Wolfe at Quebec* (Longmans, 1959)
* *Corunna* (B. T. Batsford,1961) 
* *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, 1967) 
* *London, the Biography of a City* (Longmans, Green & Co., 1969)
* *Charles I* (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1968)
* *The Search for King Arthur* (American Heritage, 1969)
* *The Dragon Wakes* (Harper & Row, 1970)
* *The Personal History of Samuel Johnson* (Longmans, 1971)
* *Tower of London* (Newsweek [Series: *Wonders of Man*], 1971) 
* *George IV* (Vol 1: Longman, 1972; Vol 2: Allen Lane)
* *The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall* (Morrow, 1975)
* *Versailles* (Series: *Wonders of Man*, 1975) 
* *Edward VII: A Portrait* (Allen Lane, 1976)
* *The Great Mutiny: India, 1857* (Allen Lane, 1978), as Penguin Pocketbook: 1980, .
* *The French Revolution* (Penguin, 1980) .
* *Africa Explored* (Allen Lane, 1982)
* *Chateaux of the Loire* (Series: *Wonders of Man*, 1983)
* *The London Encyclopaedia*, met Ben Weinreb (Macmillan, 1983)
* *Rome, the Biography of a City* (Norton, 1985) 
* *The English: A Social History* (Grafton, 1987) 
* *Venice: The Biography of a City* 1988 google.ca listing
* *The Encyclopaedia of Oxford* (Macmillan, 1988)
* *Redcoats and Rebels* (Grafton, 1990) 
* *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)
* *The Story of England* (Phaidon Press, 1994)
* *Nelson: A Personal History* (Penguin, 1994) 
* *Wellington: A Personal History* (Da Capo, 1997)
* *George III: A Personal History* (Penguin, 1998) 
* *Queen Victoria: A Personal History* (HarperCollins, 2000)
* *The Marlboroughs: John and Sarah Churchill 1650-1744* (Viking, 2001)
* *Napoleon: His Wives and Women* (HarperCollins, 2002)
* *Great Battles: Agincourt* (Phoenix new edition 2003) 
* *Disraeli: A Personal History* (HarperCollins, 2004)
* *Disraeli: The Victorian Dandy Who Became Prime Minister* (Palgrave Macmillan, New York City 2006) . 
* *The Borgias and Their Enemies: 1431–1519* (Mariner Books, 2009)
## Verwysings 
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