Throughout his 84 years, Giles Hibbert OP, whose funeral took place at Blackfriars, Cambridge, on Wednesday, was uncompromising in his search for the truth. He was related, on his mother’s side, to the Marquess of Bath, and his Wiltshire family of admirals and generals were initially displeased when he decided to become a Catholic. Giles Hibbert – whose baptismal name was Robert – entered the Dominicans, and later played a role in founding the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement, one of the few clergymen to do so and the only Catholic. He was also one of 55 priests who wrote to The Times in 1968 opposing Pope Paul VI’s reiteration of the ban on artificial contraception, Humanae Vitae. He spent eight rewarding years as Catholic chaplain to Sheffield Uni­versity a