Robert Moss (priest)

After Norwich School he was admitted a sizar of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 19 April 1682, at the age of sixteen.

After missing by a few votes an appointment to the office of public orator at Cambridge in 1698, he was chosen preacher of Gray's Inn on 11 July of that year, in succession to Thomas Richardson, master of Peterhouse.

Early in 1699 he was elected assistant-preacher at St. James's, Westminster, and was successively chaplain in ordinary to William III, Queen Anne, and George I.

In 1708 the parishioners of St. Lawrence Jewry offered him their Tuesday lectureship, which he accepted, succeeding George Stanhope, who had become dean of Canterbury.

After suffering much from gout, he died 26 March 1729, and was buried in Ely Cathedral, where a Latin inscription with his arms (ermine, a cross patée) marks his resting-place.

The bulk of his fortune, less an endowment for a sizarship at Caius College, was bequeathed to one of his nephews, Charles Moss, bishop of Bath and Wells.