Robert Hamilton Moberly

This article is about the bishop. For his father the theologian, see Robert Moberly (priest).

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

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. 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^[3] he died in 1978.

Notes

↑ His grandfather was Bishop George Moberly and his father the Rev Canon Professor Robert Campbell Moberly > “Who was Who 1897-1990” London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
↑ He was a protegé of Luke Paget

References

↑ Ecclesiastical News New Bishop of Stepney (Official Appointments and Notices) The Times Wednesday, Nov 04, 1936; pg. 9; Issue 47523; col E
↑ New Dean of Salisbury The Times, Monday, Mar 24, 1952; pg. 4; Issue 52268; col F
↑ Former Bishop of Stepney and Dean of Salisbury The Times Tuesday, Sep 19, 1978; pg. 32; Issue 60410; col B

Church of England titles
Preceded by Charles Curzon	Bishop of Stepney 1936 – 1952	Succeeded by Joost de Blank
Preceded by Henry Robins	Dean of Salisbury 1952 – 1960	Succeeded by Kenneth Haworth

Deans of Salisbury

High Medieval	Walter Osbert Robert Serlo Roger Azo Robert of Chichester Henry de Beaumont John of Oxford Jordan Eustace Richard Poore Adam William de Wanda Robert de Hertford Robert Wickhampton Walter Scammel Henry Brandeston Simon de Micham

Late Medieval	Peter of Savoy William Rufati Reymund de Fargis Bertrand de Fargis Reynold Orsini James Orsini Robert Braybrooke Thomas Montagu John Chandler Simon Sydenham Thomas Brunce Nicholas Bildeston Adam Moleyns Richard Leyot Gilbert Kymer James Goldwell John Davison Edward Cheyne

Early modern	Thomas Ruthall William Atwater John Longland Cuthbert Tunstall Richard Pace Peter Vannes William Bradbridge Thomas Cole Edmund Freke John Piers John Bridges John Gordon John Williams John Bowle Edmund Mason Richard Baylie Ralph Brideoake Thomas Pierce Robert Woodward Edward Young John Younger John Clarke Thomas Greene Rowney Noel John Ekins

Late modern	Charles Talbot Hugh Pearson Francis Lear Henry Hamilton J. C. Ryle George Boyle Allan Webb William Page Roberts Andrew Burn John Randolph Edward Henderson Henry Robins Robert Moberly Kenneth Haworth Fenton Morley Sydney Evans Hugh Dickinson Derek Watson June Osborne

Bishops of Stepney

Forrest Browne Arthur Winnington-Ingram Cosmo Gordon Lang Luke Paget Henry Mosley Charles Curzon Robert Moberly Joost de Blank Evered Lunt Trevor Huddleston Jim Thompson (became first area bishop)

Area bishops	Jim Thompson Richard Chartres John Sentamu Stephen Oliver Pete Broadbent (Acting) Adrian Newman

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