Robert Moberly (bishop)

Robert Hamilton Moberly (14 May 1884 – 16 September 1978)[1] was the 7th Anglican Bishop of Stepney from 1936[2] until 1952 when he was appointed Dean of Salisbury.

[3] He was born into an eminent ecclesiastical family in 1884[N 1] and educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford before embarking on an ecclesiastical career with a curacy at Dover.

During the Great War, he served from June, 1917, as a Temporary Chaplain to the Forces, and was regarded as ‘A1’.

[4] Inner city posts followed[N 2] before promotion to the Suffragan Bishopric of Stepney, a post he held until transferring to the Deanery at Salisbury sixteen years later.

[1] In 1917, he married Rosamund Vere née Smyth; the couple had two sons.