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Reginald Hibbert
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John Robertson

Reginald Hibbert

Reginald Alfred Hibbert
born 21.2.1922 Barnet,Hertfordshire
son of Alfred Hibbert
educated Queen Elizabeth's School,Barnet
educated Worcester College,Oxford
RMA Sandhurst
commissioned 4th Hussars
SOE Albania 1943-44 (Lt + Captain)
4th Hussars November 1944-1945
graduated Worcester College,Oxford
Foreign Office
Charge d'Affaires,Ulan Bator,Mongolia 1964-66
Research Fellow,Leeds University 1966-67
Political Adviser to C-in-C Far East 1970-71
Minister,Bonn 1972-75
Assistant Under-Secretary of State,FCO 1975-76
Deputy Under-Secretary of State 1976-79
Ambassador to France 1979-82
awards CMG 1966,KCMG 1979,GCMG 1982
author "Albania's National Liberation Struggle"
married Ann Pugh 1949 (3 children)
died 5.10.2002 Pennal,Gwynedd
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography says that Reginald Hibbert was born at 35 Castleton Road, Ilford, Essex, not in Barnet; and that he died at Shropshire and Mid-Wales Hospice, Shrewsbury, not at Pennal.
Which is right?

Alan Campbell, ‘Hibbert, Sir Reginald Alfred (1922–2002)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Jan 2006; online edn, Oct 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/77337, accessed 23 Feb 2012]
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