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Christopher Hibbert (1924–2008)

Author of The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall

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Christopher Hibbert: March 5, 1924 -- December 21, 2008 Historian Christopher Hibbert was born as Arthur Raymond Hibbert in Enderby, England in 1924. He dropped out of Oriel College to join the Army. He served with the London Irish Rifles and won the Military Cross. He earned a degree in history in 1948. Before becoming a full-time nonfiction writer, he worked as a real estate agent and a television critic for Truth magazine. He wrote more than 60 books throughout his lifetime including The Road to Tyburn (1957), Il Duce: The Life of Benito Mussolini(1962), George IV: Prince of Wales, 1762-1811 (1972), and George IV: Regent and King, 1812-1830 (1973). Hibbert was awarded the Heinemann Award for Literature in 1962 for The Destruction of Lord Raglan. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Geographical Society, and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Literature by the University of Leicester. He died from bronchial pneumonia on December 21, 2008 at the age of 84. (Bowker Author Biography)
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The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall 1,497 copies, 23 reviews
The Days of the French Revolution 675 copies, 8 reviews
Redcoats and Rebels: The American Revolution Through British Eyes 564 copies, 6 reviews
The Borgias and Their Enemies: 1431-1519 470 copies, 13 reviews
The Virgin Queen: Elizabeth I, Genius of the Golden Age 401 copies, 6 reviews
Rome: The Biography of a City 388 copies, 3 reviews
Tower of London 361 copies, 3 reviews
Victoria: A Biography 359 copies, 4 reviews
The London Encyclopedia (Editor) 357 copies, 2 reviews
Cities and Civilisations 356 copies, 1 review
George III: A Personal History 302 copies, 5 reviews
The Great Mutiny 301 copies, 2 reviews
The Story of England 299 copies, 8 reviews
The English: A Social History 1066-1945 291 copies, 1 review
Nelson: A Personal History 230 copies, 3 reviews
Wellington: A Personal History 223 copies, 4 reviews
Cavaliers and Roundheads: The English Civil War, 1642-1649 209 copies, 1 review
Florence: The Biography of a City 201 copies, 4 reviews
London: The Biography of a City 176 copies, 1 review
London characters and crooks (Editor) 172 copies
Agincourt 171 copies, 7 reviews
Versailles 167 copies
The Destruction of Lord Raglan : A Tragedy of the Crimean War, 1854-55 155 copies, 3 reviews
Napoleon: His Wives and Women 149 copies, 3 reviews
Venice: The Biography of a City 131 copies
Benito Mussolini 115 copies, 1 review
Disraeli: The Victorian Dandy Who Became Prime Minister 105 copies
The Personal History of Samuel Johnson 100 copies, 1 review
Africa Explored: Europeans in the Dark Continent, 1769-1889 93 copies, 3 reviews
Queen Victoria in Her Letters and Journals (Editor) 93 copies, 1 review
The Recollections of Rifleman Harris (Editor) 90 copies, 2 reviews
The Search for King Arthur 85 copies
Garibaldi and His Enemies: The Clash of Arms and Personalities in the… 84 copies
The Grand Tour 80 copies, 2 reviews
King Mob: The Story of Lord George Gordon and the Riots of 1780 74 copies, 1 review
The Dragon Wakes: China and the West, 1793-1911 74 copies, 1 review
Waterloo 74 copies, 2 reviews
Charles I: A Life of Religion, War and Treason 74 copies, 3 reviews
Twilight of Princes 68 copies, 1 review
Edward VII: The Last Victorian King 67 copies, 2 reviews
The Royal Victorians: King Edward VII, His Family and Friends 65 copies
The Marlboroughs: John and Sarah Churchill 1650-1744 64 copies
The Emperors of China 63 copies
The Court at Windsor 61 copies
ITALIAN CITIES - ROME, FLORENCE, VENICE (FOLIO SOCIETY) 57 copies
Corunna (Great Battles) 56 copies, 2 reviews
Anzio the Bid for Rome 56 copies, 1 review
Mussolini 55 copies, 1 review
Arnhem (Great Battles) 52 copies
George IV, Regent and King, 1811-1830 51 copies, 2 reviews
Greville's England: Selections from the Diaries of Charles Greville,… (Editor) 50 copies
The Making of Charles Dickens 47 copies, 1 review
The Roots of Evil: A Social History of Crime and Punishment 46 copies
George IV: The Rebel Who Would Be King 46 copies
The Pen and the Sword 44 copies
George IV, Prince of Wales, 1762-1811 38 copies, 1 review
Chateaux of the Loire 37 copies
The Road to Tyburn 37 copies
Wolfe at Quebec: The Man Who Won the French and Indian War 36 copies
The Encyclopaedia of Oxford 34 copies
Life in Victorian England 33 copies
A Soldier of the Seventy-First: The Journal of a Soldier of the Highland… 32 copies, 1 review
The Court of St. James's: The monarch at work from Victoria to… 32 copies
The Popes 32 copies
The Illustrated London News: Social History of Victorian Britain 30 copies
King Arthur 29 copies
The Way of King Arthur: The True Story of King Arthur and His Knights of… 28 copies
The Illustrated Story of England 24 copies
London's Churches 22 copies
The Horizon Book of Daily Life in Victorian England 21 copies
Garibaldi: Hero of Italian Unification 21 copies
Disraeli and His World 20 copies
A Brief History of the Battle of Agincourt 20 copies
Charles Dickens: The Making of a Literary Giant 20 copies
Edward: The Uncrowned King 18 copies
A Guide to Royal London 15 copies
Gilbert & Sullivan and Their Victorian World 15 copies
Highwaymen 8 copies
No ordinary place : Radley College and the public school system 5 copies
A Brief History of the Borgias: The Bloodiest Family of the Italian… 2 copies
Perfect and Imperfect Enjoyments: Poems by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester 2 copies
The World of Charles Dickens 1 copy, 1 review
Milestones of History & Twilight of Princes 1 copy
The Court of at Windsor, a Domestic History 1 copy
The Classical Tradition 1 copy
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A Tale of Two Cities (Introduction, some editions) 32,511 copies, 421 reviews
The Life of Samuel Johnson; Abridged (Editor, some editions) 442 copies, 2 reviews
Travels through France and Italy (Introduction, some editions) 183 copies, 4 reviews
The Wreck of the Wager: The Narratives of John Bulkeley and the Hon. John… (Editor, some editions) 19 copies
Captain Gronow: His Reminiscences of Regency and Victorian Life, 1810-60 (Editor, some editions) 18 copies
The Wheatley Diary: A Journal and Sketch-Book Kept During the Peninsular… (Editor) 15 copies
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Summer 1993 (Author "Marston Moor" and "Marston Moor Today") 14 copies
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Hibbert, Arthur Raymond (birth name)
Date of birth
1924-03-05
Date of death
2008-12-21
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Nationality
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Birthplace
Enderby, Leicestershire, England, UK
Place of death
Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Cause of death
Places of residence
Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Education
Radley College
University of Oxford (Oriel College)
Occupations
military officer
historian
professor
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London Irish Rifles
Johnson Society
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Military Cross
Fellow, Royal Society of Literature
Heinemann Award for Literature, 1962
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