George Moberly

The Right Reverend George Moberly
Bishop of Salisbury

Diocese	Diocese of Salisbury
In office	1869–1885
Predecessor	Walter Hamilton
Successor	John Wordsworth
Personal details
Born	(1803-10-10)10 October 1803
Died	6 July 1885(1885-07-06) (aged 81)
Nationality	British
Denomination	Anglican
Education	Winchester College
Alma mater	Balliol College, Oxford

George Moberly (10 October 1803 – 6 July 1885), English divine, was educated at Winchester and Balliol College, Oxford.

Life

After a distinguished academic career he became head master of Winchester in 1835. This post he resigned in 1866, and retired to the Rectory of St. Mary's Church, Brighstone, Isle of Wight,^[1] he was also a Canon of Chester Cathedral.^[2] Mr Gladstone, however, in 1869 called him to be Bishop of Salisbury,^[3] in which see he kept up the traditions of his predecessors, Bishops Hamilton and Denison, his chief addition being the summoning of a diocesan synod.^[4]

Though Moberly left Oxford at the beginning of the Oxford Movement, he fell under its influence: the more so that at Winchester he formed a most intimate friendship with Keble, spending several weeks every year at Otterbourne, the next parish to Hursley.

Moberly, however, retained his independence of thought, and in 1872 he astonished his High Church friends by joining in the movement for the disuse of the damnatory clauses in the Athanasian Creed. His chief contribution to theology is his Bampton Lectures of 1868, on The Administration of the Holy Spirit in the Body of Christ.^[4]

His daughter Charlotte Anne Moberly became the first principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford, and co-authored under the pen name "Elisabeth Morison" An Adventure (1911), in which she relates her purported encounter with the ghost of Marie-Antoinette in the gardens of the Petit Trianon in 1901. His great-grandson, Dick Milford, was a clergyman and educator who was involved in the founding of Oxfam.

He died on 6 July 1885.^[5]

References

↑ "Three famous men of Brighstone" Sibley,P Brighstone, Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Brighstone ISBN 0-906328-31-4
↑ The London Gazette: no. 23552. p. 5911. 5 November 1869. Retrieved 2008-02-21.
↑ The London Gazette: no. 23527. p. 4637. 17 August 1869. Retrieved 2008-02-21.
1 2 Hamilton 1894.
↑ The London Gazette: no. 25512. p. 4402. 18 September 1885. Retrieved 2008-02-21.

Sources

Hamilton, John Andrew (1894). "Moberly, George". In Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography. 38. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Moberly, George". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

External links

Bibliographic directory from Project Canterbury
"George Moberly - St Peter's Church, Nottingham, England on-line magazine". Archived from the original on 2008-02-09. Retrieved 2007-11-15.

Academic offices
Preceded by David Williams	Headmaster of Winchester College 1835-1866	Succeeded by George Ridding
Church of England titles
Preceded by Walter Hamilton	Bishop of Salisbury 1869–1885	Succeeded by John Wordsworth

Bishops of Salisbury

see at Sherborne	see erected from Winchester St Aldhelm Forthhere Herewald Æthelmod Denefrith Wigberht Eahlstan St Heahmund Æthelheah Wulfsige Asser Æthelweard Wærstan Æthelbald Sigehelm Alfred Wulfsige II Ælfwold I Æthelsige I Wulfsige III Æthelric Æthelsige II Brithwine I Ælfmær Brithwine II St Ælfwold II Herman see united with Ramsbury and removed to Old Sarum

see at Old Sarum	united from Sherborne & Ramsbury Herman St Osmund Roger Henry de Sully Philip de Harcourt Josceline de Bohon Hubert Walter Herbert Poore Richard Poore see removed to New Sarum

Medieval	Richard Poore Robert de Bingham William de York Giles of Bridport Walter de la Wyle Robert Wickhampton Walter Scammel Henry Brandeston Lawrence de Awkeburne William de la Corner Nicholas Longespee Simon of Ghent Roger Martival Robert Wyvil Ralph Ergham John Waltham Richard Mitford Nicholas Bubwith Robert Hallam John Chandler Robert Neville William Ayscough Richard Beauchamp Lionel Woodville Thomas Langton John Blyth Henry Deane

Early modern	Edmund Audley Lorenzo Campeggio Nicholas Shaxton John Capon Gasparo Contarini William Petow Francis Mallet John Jewel Edmund Gheast John Piers John Coldwell Henry Cotton Robert Abbot Martin Fotherby Robert Tounson John Davenant Brian Duppa Humphrey Henchman John Earle Alexander Hyde Seth Ward Gilbert Burnet William Talbot Richard Willis Benjamin Hoadly Thomas Sherlock John Gilbert John Thomas (I) Robert Hay Drummond John Thomas (II) John Hume Shute Barrington John Douglas

Late modern	John Fisher Thomas Burgess Edward Denison Walter Hamilton George Moberly John Wordsworth Frederick Ridgeway St Clair Donaldson Neville Lovett Geoffrey Lunt William Anderson Joseph Fison George Reindorp John Baker David Stancliffe Nick Holtam

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 77123942 LCCN: n90638305 ISNI: 0000 0000 8157 9341 GND: 119370727 NLA: 51306970

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