Background
Charles was born on 7 December in 1858.
Charles was born on 7 December in 1858.
Charles studied at Bristol Grammar School.
He was a student of the Jesus College in Cambridge.
Whibley worked for three years in the editorial department of Cassell & Co, publishers. He shared a house with his brother Leonard Whibley, William Ernest Henley and George Warrington Steevens.
In 1894 he became the Paris correspondent for the Pall Mall Gazette. This Tory evening paper conformed with Whibley's conservative political views.
Charles was a persistent critic of the system of state education.
In literature and the arts, his views were progressive. He supported James Abbott McNeill Whistler. He also made the recommendation of T.S. Eliot to Geoffrey Faber, that resulted in Eliot's position at Faber and Faber. Eliot's essay Charles Whibley (1931) was contained within his Selected Essays, 1917-1932.
In Paris he moved in the symbolist circles with Stéphane Mallarmé, Marcel Schwob and Paul Valéry.
Charles married to Ethel Birnie Philip.