Tony Hibbert

Anthony James "Tony" Hibbert (born 20 February 1981) is an English footballer who currently plays for Everton in the Premier League. Originally a midfielder, Hibbert now plays at right back. He has spent his entire career with Everton, having joined the club in 1991. He made his senior début for Everton in 2001, and has since made over three hundred appearances for the club in all competitions. Hibbert's one-club man status, coupled with his down to earth demeanour, has since earned him the status of cult figure among Everton fans.

Football career

Club career

Hibbert was born in Merseyside in Liverpool and brought up in Huyton. Growing up as an Everton supporter, Hibbert joined the club as a boy. He was a member of the Everton youth team that won the FA Youth Cup in 1998 beating Blackburn Rovers 5–3 on aggregate. Three years later, he made his first team début for the club in a Premier League match against West Ham United on 31 March 2001, in which a high challenge from Stuart Pearce into Hibbert's chest saw Everton earn a penalty. In the 2002–03 season, in the wake of an injury to fellow right-back Steve Watson, Hibbert was a regular member of the Everton first-team. The ACTIM index rated him the best English right back in the 2004–05 season.

Tony Hibbert (musician)

Tony Hibbert (born 6 December 1956) is an English musician who played bass guitar in the synthpop band, New Musik, from 1977 to 1981. He was born in Tooting, London.

He played with New Musik on the albums From A to B (1980) and Anywhere (1981), but later retired from the music industry. After his leaving, there was not a bass guitar used on the New Musik's third and final album, Warp.

In 1980, he played on Bruce Cockburn's album, Humans.

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Tony Hibbert (British Army officer)

Tony Hibbert, MBE MC (6 December 1917 - 12 October 2014), was a British Army officer who fought in the Second World War. During a military career that began in 1935 and ended in 1947, Hibbert saw action in the Battle of France, the North African Campaign, the Italian Campaign and Operation Market Garden. After these battles, he led a T-Force unit in Operation Eclipse, a campaign carried out by the Allies shortly before V-E Day.

In civilian life, after his time in the army, Hibbert enlarged and diversified his family’s wine and spirits business. His restless first retirement, begun in the early 1970s, was followed by a 1981 retirement attempt that led his wife and him to ownership of Cornwall's Trebah Garden, which they went on to restore to its prewar splendor. In 2009, after nearly sixty years of marriage, Hibbert became a widower. Five years later, he died peacefully, at home.

Beginning of military career

James Anthony Hibbert was born in Chertsey, Surrey. Son of a Royal Flying Corps pilot, Hibbert decided to enter the British Army while he was in Germany, working as a vineyard apprentice for his family's wine business. Having seen that Germany was preparing for war, he returned to England in 1935 and applied to the Royal Military Academy. His father, who thought Germany would not go to war, after the defeat it had suffered in World War I, was upset by his decision to abandon his apprenticeship.