George Moberly

George Moberly (10 October 1803 – 6 July 1885) was an English cleric who was headmaster of Winchester College, and then served as Bishop of Salisbury from 1869 until his death.

The Right Reverend George Moberly
Bishop of Salisbury
Moberly in 1870
Church	Church of England
Diocese	Diocese of Salisbury
In office	1869–1885
Predecessor	Walter Kerr Hamilton
Successor	John Wordsworth
Personal details
Born	10 October 1803 St Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died	6 July 1885(1885-07-06) (aged 81)
Denomination	Anglican
Spouse	Mary Crokat ​ (m. 1834)​
Children	George, Robert, Charlotte, John, and 11 others
Education	Winchester College
Alma mater	Balliol College, Oxford (MA)

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Life

He was born in St Petersburg, Russian Empire in 1803, the seventh son of Edward Moberly, merchant, and his wife, Sarah Cayley, and educated at Winchester College.^[1] He matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford in 1822, and graduating B.A. 1825, and M.A. 1828. He was a Fellow of Balliol from 1826 to 1834.^[2] He was ordained deacon in 1826, and priest in 1828.^[3]

Moberly married Mary Anne Crokat on 22 December 1834 at South Cadbury, Somerset. After his academic career he became headmaster of Winchester in 1835.^[4]

This post Moberly resigned in 1866, and retired to the Rectory of St. Mary's Church, Brighstone, Isle of Wight,^[5] he was also a Canon of Chester Cathedral.^[6] The Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, however, in 1869 called him to be Bishop of Salisbury,^[7] 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.^[8][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.^[4]

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.^[8][4] He died on 6 July 1885.^[9]

Family

Moberly married in 1834 Mary Anne Crokat, daughter of Thomas Crokat of Leghorn. There were 15 children of the marriage, eight daughters and seven sons.^[1] Five sons and seven daughters survived their father.^[10] The children included:

• Alice Arbuthnot Moberly (1835-1911)^[11]
• George Herbert Moberly (1837–1895), the eldest son.^[12]
• Mary Louisa Moberly (1838-1859), the third child, married George Ridding.^[13]
• Edith Emily Moberly (1839-1901)
• Arthur Moberly (1840-1858), second son.^[14]
• Dora Frances Moberly (1842-1926), married Rev. Charles Martin. William Keble Martin, the botanical illustrator, was one of their sons.^[15]
• Elspeth Catherine Moberly (1843-1938) ^[16]
• Frances Emily Moberly (1844-1921),^[17] married William Awdry.
• Robert Campbell Moberly (1845–1903), was the third son.^[18]
• Charlotte Anne Moberly (1846–1937), the tenth child, became the first principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford, and was involved in the Moberly-Jourdain incident.
• John Cornelius Moberly (1848–1948), was the fourth son.^[19]
• Edward Hugh Moberly (1849-1922), son, was a cleric.^[20]
• Walter Allan Moberly (1851-1905), a cleric, was the sixth son.^[21]
• Margaret Helen Moberly (1852-1939), married Charles Henry Awdry.^[22]
• Selwyn William Moberly (1854-1871)^[23]

His great-grandson, Dick Milford, was a clergyman and educator who was involved in the founding of Oxfam.

References

1. Rowell, Geoffrey. "Moberly, George". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/18862. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
2. Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Moberly, George" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
3. "Moberly, George (1826–1828) (CCEd Person ID 36820)". The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540–1835. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
4. Chisholm 1911.
5. "Three famous men of Brighstone" Sibley,P Brighstone, Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Brighstone ISBN 0-906328-31-4
6. "No. 23552". The London Gazette. 5 November 1869. p. 5911.
7. "No. 23527". The London Gazette. 17 August 1869. p. 4637.
8. Hamilton 1894.
9. "No. 25512". The London Gazette. 18 September 1885. p. 4402.
10. Hamilton, John Andrew (1894). "Moberly, George" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 38. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
11. "England and Wales Census". FamilySearch. 1851. Retrieved 27 May 2024.
12. "Moberly, George Herbert", in Alumni Oxonienses 1715-1886, Vol. 3 (1892), p. 965
13. Curthoys, M. C. "Ridding, George". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/35750. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
14. "Deaths". Wiltshire County Mirror. 29 December 1858. p. 4. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
15. "William Keble Martin, Rev". Geni. Retrieved 2 July 2024.
16. "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 27 May 2024.
17. "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 27 May 2024.
18. Dennis, Barbara. "Moberly, Robert Campbell". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/35049. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
19. Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Moberly, John Cornelius" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
20. Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Moberly, Edward Hugh" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
21. Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Moberly, Walter Allan" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
22. "Marriages". Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard. 29 April 1876. p. 8. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
23. "Deaths". The Week's News. 15 April 1871. p. 477.

Attribution:

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Moberly, George". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 635.

External links

• Bibliographic directory from Project Canterbury
• "George Moberly – St Peter's Church, Nottingham, England on-line magazine". Archived from the original on 9 February 2008. Retrieved 15 November 2007.

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