Robert Moberly

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

Early life and family Moberly was born into an eminent ecclesiastical family on 14 May 1884. His father was the theologian Robert Campbell Moberly, Honorary Chaplain and Chaplains in Ordinary in the Ecclesiastical Household for Queen Victoria and her successor, Edward VII. His paternal grandfather was Bishop George Moberly and his maternal grandfather was Bishop Walter Kerr Hamilton. Moberly was the second of five children, with his elder brother being the academic Walter Hamilton Moberly.

Ecclesiastical career Following the completion of his undergraduate studies, Moberly underwent ministerial training at Cuddesdon College. He was ordained in 1909 as a deacon He returned to South Africa in 1919 to become an examining chaplain firstly to the Bishop of Pretoria and then from 1922 to the Bishop of Johannesburg. He returned to England in 1924. 1934 saw the publication of his first and only book, "The Great Friendship". Moberly was installed as the Suffragan Bishop of Stepney in 1936, a post he held until transferring to the Deanery at Salisbury sixteen years later. He retired from his post at Salisbury in 1960.

Personal life and death In 1917, he married Rosamund Vere née Smyth. The couple had two sons: Robert Basil, born in 1920 and Geoffrey Walter, born in 1923. The theologians Elizabeth Moberly and R. W. L. Moberly are Moberly's grandchildren by his elder son.

Moberly died in Chichester on 16 September 1978.