Catalogue description LETTERS AND PAPERS OF COLONEL HUGH ROBERT HIBBERT (1828-1895) MAINLY RELATING TO SERVICE IN THE CRIMEAN WAR, 1854-1855

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Title: LETTERS AND PAPERS OF COLONEL HUGH ROBERT HIBBERT (1828-1895) MAINLY RELATING TO SERVICE IN THE CRIMEAN WAR, 1854-1855
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DHB/1-39 Letters from Hugh Robert Hibbert to his mother, Mary Caroline Henrietta Hibbert of Birtles Hall, Macclesfield.

 

39 docs. c. 1845-1858.

 

DHB/40-52 Letters from Hugh Robert Hibbert to his father, Thomas Hibbert of Birtles Hall, Macclesfield. 13 docs. Nov. 1845 - Sep. 1864.

 

DHB/53-57 Letters from Hugh Robert Hibbert to various family and friends : sister, Georgiana Charlotte Hibbert. 5 docs. Aug. 1854 - Jun.1855.

 

DHB/58-59 Sister, Caroline Essex Hibbert. 2 docs. Jul. 1854 - Mar.1855.

 

DHB/60-61 Sister "Peck" [either Dorothea Letitia or Octavia Letitia].

 

2 docs. Aug. 1855 - Oct. 1855.

 

DHB/62-64 William Clarke of Peover Hall, farmer. 3 docs. Jun. 1854 - Jun. 1855.

 

DHB/65-66 Thomas Norbury of Park House, Park Lane, Macclesfield.

 

2 docs. Jul.1854 - Dec. 1855.

 

DHB/67-68 Mr. Whitby of Birtles, farmer. 2 docs. Jul. 1854 - Aug. 1855.

 

DHB/69 Hugh Henshaw, blacksmith, of Birtles Smithy.

 

1 doc. Apr. 1855.

 

DHB/70-85 Miscellaneous Crimean items. 16 items Apr. 1854 - Jan. 1962.

 

DHB/86-101 Miscellaneous other items. 19 items Jul. 1805 - Jul. 1918.

Date: 1805-1918
Held by: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Hibbert, Hugh Robert, 1828-1895, Colonel

Physical description: 5 Series
Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited by Mrs. A. Hibbert-Hingston, in June 1979.

Custodial history:

Acc. 2618

Subjects:
  • Crimean War, 1854-1856
Administrative / biographical background:

Colonel Hugh Robert Hibbert, DL, JP, of Birtles Hall, Macclesfield, served with the 7th Royal Fusiliers in the Crimean Expeditionary force from embarkation in April 1854 until the Second Assault on the Redan at Sebastopol in September 1855, when he was severely wounded and sent home. Having first entered the Army in 1847 as an Ensign in the 39th Foot, he was commissioned Lieutenant in the 7th Royal Fusiliers in 1850 and served continuously with that Regiment until his retirement in 1871 as Colonel commanding the First Battalion, 1864-71. During the Crimean War he was actively engaged in the Battles of the Alma and Inkerman and at the Siege of Sebastopol, being twice wounded. In 1858 he took part in military operations in suppression of the Indian Mutiny and subsequently served for several years in India.

 

His Crimean letters, most of which were addressed to his mother, give graphic descriptions of active service conditions in the Crimea. The famous Crimean War historian, A. W. Kinglake incorporated some of Colonel Hibbert's reminiscences in his classic work The Invasion of the Crimea (1877) and Major General W. R. Baring Pemberton used some of the letters in the course of writing his Battles of the Crimean War (Batsford 1962). Some of the letters were copied and edited by Mrs. Hibbert at the time of receipt, presumably for circulation, and these have been attached to the originals in the course of arranging the collection.

 

Principal members of Colonel Hibbert's family referred to in the collection are:-

 

(a) his mother, Mary Caroline Henrietta Hibbert (1803-79), eldest daughter of Charles Cholmondeley of Overleigh, Cheshire, who married, 1823;

 

(b) his father, Thomas Hibbert, DL, JP (1788-1879) of Birtles Hall, Macclesfield;

 

(c) his brother, Francis Hibbert (1840-82), Major, 7th Royal Fusiliers;

 

(d) his brother, Rev. Reginald John Henry Hibbert (1830-77), Vicar of Warmleighton, Warwickshire, 1869-77;

 

(e) his sister, Caroline Essex Hibbert (d.1933);

 

(f) his sister, Georgiana Charlotte Hibbert (d.1924);

 

(g) his wife, Sarah Catherine Augusta Hibbert (d.1931);

 

(h) his second son and heir, Rear Admiral Hugh Hibbert, RN, CBE, DSO (1863- );

 

(i) his grandson, Major General Hugh Brownlow Hibbert (1893- ).

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