Robert Moberly (bishop)

Robert Hamilton Moberly was the 7th Anglican Bishop of Stepney from 1936[1] until 1952 when he was appointed Dean of Salisbury.[2]

Robert Hamilton Moberly, 1930s

He was born into an eminent ecclesiastical family in 1884[N 1] and educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford before embarking on an ecclesiastical career with a Curacy at Dover. During the Great War, he served from June, 1917, as a Temporary Chaplain to the Firces, and was regarded as ‘A1’.[3] Inner city posts followed[N 2] before promotion to the Suffragan Bishopic of Stepney, a post he held until transferring to the Deanery at Salisbury sixteen years later. A brilliant scholar[4] he died in 1978.