Name Robert Moberly Role Priest | Parents George Moberly Children Walter Hamilton Moberly | |
Died June 8, 1903, Oxford, United Kingdom Education Winchester College, New College, Oxford People also search for George Moberly, Walter Hamilton Moberly, Charlotte Anne Moberly | ||
Robert Campbell Moberly (26 July 1845 – 8 June 1903) was an English theologian and the first Principal of St Stephen's House, Oxford (1876–1878).
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Life
He was the son of George Moberly, Bishop of Salisbury, and faithfully maintained the traditions of his father's teaching. His sister was the writer Charlotte Anne Moberly. Educated at Twyford School, Winchester and New College, Oxford, he was appointed senior student of Christ Church in 1867 and tutor in 1869. In 1876 he went out with Bishop Copleston to Ceylon for six months.
After his return he became the first head of St Stephen's House, Oxford (1876–1878), and then, after presiding for two years over the Theological College at Salisbury, where he acted as his father's chaplain, he accepted the college living of Great Budworth in Cheshire in 1880, and the same year married Alice, the daughter of his father's predecessor, Walter Kerr Hamilton. In 1892, Lord Salisbury made him Regius Professor of Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford and a Canon of Christ Church Cathedral in that city. He was appointed an Honorary Chaplain to Queen Victoria in July 1898, and in early January 1901 was appointed Chaplain-in-Ordinary to Her Majesty. The Queen died later that month, and Moberly was re-appointed Chaplain-in-Ordinary to her successor King Edward VII.
After a long period of delicate health he died at Christ Church. He was the father of Walter Hamilton Moberly and Robert Hamilton Moberly.
Works
His chief writings were: