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English author, historian and Army Officer (–)

Arthur Raymond Hibbert (5 March – 21 December ), known as Christopher Hibbert, was an English author, popular historian and biographer.

He has been called "a pearl of biographers" (New Statesman) and "probably the most widely-read popular historian of our time and undoubtedly one of the most prolific" (The Times).^[1]

Biography

Arthur Raymond Hibbert was born in Enderby, Leicestershire in , the son of Canon H.

V. Hibbert (died ) and his wife Maude. He was the second of three children, and christened Arthur Raymond.^[2] He was educated at Radley College in Oxfordshire before he went up to Oriel College at the University of Oxford.^[1][3] He was awarded the degrees of BA and later MA.^{[citation needed]}

He left Oriel College to join the Army, where a sergeant major referred to Hibbert as "Christopher Robin" (of Winnie the Pooh books) based upon his youth