Editing Patrick O'Brian (section)

===Awards, honours and recognition===
In 1995 he was awarded the inaugural [[Heywood Hill Literary Prize]], in the amount of £10,000 for his lifetime's writings. In his acceptance speech in July 1995, O'Brian, then age 80, said it was the first literary prize of his adult life.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DsktwMvI3uAC&q=Heywood+Hill+Literary+Prize+1995&pg=PA355 |title=Patrick O'Brian: A Life |last=King |first=Dean |page=355 |year=2001 |publisher=Henry Holt and Co |location=New York |isbn=9780805059779 }}</ref> He received an [[honorary doctorate]] from [[Trinity College Dublin]], and a [[CBE]] on June 17, 1997.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n09/christopher-tayler/for-want-of-a-dinner-jacket|title=For Want of a Dinner Jacket |first=Christopher|last=Tayler |date=6 May 2021|volume=43|issue=9 |magazine=[[London Review of Books]] }}</ref><ref name=kinglrev/>

On 21–23 September 2001, the [[National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth]], organised a ''The Patrick O'Brian Weekend'' to celebrate O'Brian's achievement in depicting Nelson's Navy in his novels. The weekend featured lectures by some of Britain's leading naval historians on "how the novels closely reflect the insights of modern scholarship". There was a concert of contemporary music and readings from his books. The weekend concluded with a tour of Nelson's flagship [[HMS Victory|HMS ''Victory'']] followed by a dinner on her lower gundeck.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Other Conferences and Meetings |journal=Newsletter of the Society for Nautical Research |date=August 2001 |issue=43 |page=6}}</ref> The event was repeated one year later at the same venue.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Patrick O'Brian Weekend, 13–15 September 2002 |journal=Newsletter of the Society for Nautical Research |date=August 2002 |issue=47 |page=4}}</ref>