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 ordained in 1927 and was a curate at St Mary's Redcliffe, Bristol.^[4] He then became a lecturer in canon law and then the Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology^[5] at the University of Oxford before his ordination to the episcopate as the Bishop of Exeter in 1949.^[6][7] He held this position for 24 years.

Mortimer was also a notable author.^[8] He had four children, one of whom is the journalist and author Edward Mortimer.

References

1. "Obituary: The Right Rev Robert Mortimer Former Bishop of Exeter", The Times, 13 September 1976, p16.)
2. "New Bishop of Exeter", The Times, 11 February 1949, p4.
3. “Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
4. Church Web Site
5. "University News", The Times, 11 February 1944, p7.
6. National Archives
7. Genuki
8. Among other books he wrote Gambling (1933), Origins of Private Penance (1939), The Elements of Moral Theology (1947), Marriage in Church and State (1947), Christian Ethics (1950), The Duties of a Churchman (1951) and Western Canon Law (1953).