Robert Mortimer

Robert Cecil Mortimer (6 December 1902 – 11 September 1976)[1] was an Anglican bishop in the Church of England.[2]

Mortimer was educated at St Edward's School, Oxford[3] and Keble College in the same city. He was made deacon at Michaelmas 1926 (3 October) at his title church (St Mary Redcliffe)[4] and ordained priest the Michaelmas following (2 October 1927) at St Alban's, Westbury-on-Trym — both times by George Nickson, Bishop of Bristol;[5] and was a curate at St Marys Redcliffe.[6] He then became a lecturer in canon law and then the Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology[7] at the University of Oxford before his ordination to the episcopate in 1949 to serve as Bishop of Exeter,[8][9] which See he held for 24 years. He was consecrated a bishop on St Mark's Day 1949 (25 April), by Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey.[10]

Mortimer was also a notable author,[11] and frequently appeared on BBC Television. He had four children, one of whom is the journalist and author Edward Mortimer.