![]() ![]() He died on 21 December 2008 in Henley-on-Thames from bronchial pneumonia at the age of 84. ![]() He was married to Susan Piggford with three children, his daughter and literary executor Kate Hibbert, television writer James Hibbert and music journalist Tom Hibbert. He lived at Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. Hibbert was a member of the Army and Navy Club and the Garrick Club. Christopher Hibbert 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. Hibbert was awarded the Heinemann Award for Literature in 1962 for The Destruction of Lord Raglan, and the McColvin Medal of the Library Association in 1989. From 1945 to 1959 he was a partner in a firm of land agents and auctioneers, and began his writing career in 1957. Hibbert became the personal assistant to General Alan Duff. He was wounded twice and awarded the Military Cross in 1945. Hibbert served as an infantry officer in the London Irish Rifles regiment in Italy during World War II, reaching the rank of captain. The name "Christopher" subsequently stuck. He left Oriel College to join the Army, where a sergeant major referred to Hibbert as Christopher Robin based upon his youthful looks. Hibbert (died 1980) and his wife Maude, and was educated at Radley College, before he went up to Oriel College at the University of Oxford. In 1924 Arthur Raymond Hibbert was born in Enderby, Leicestershire, the son of Canon H. ![]()
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