Robert Hamilton Moberly

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

He was born into an eminent ecclesiastical family in 1884 and educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford before embarking on an ecclesiastical career with a Curacy at Dover. Inner city posts followed 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 he died in 1978.