Robert Moberly

Robert Campbell Moberly (26 July 1845 – 8 June 1903) and brothers George Herbert and John Cornerlius. He was educated at Twyford School and Winchester College before matriculating at New College, Oxford as a scholar. He won the Newdigate Prize for a poem about Marie Antoinette George Moberly (sitting at the centre) and his family on the ground of Winchester College in 1866. Robert Campbell Moberly stood at the far right in the photograph.

Ecclesiastical career Moberly joined Christ Church as a senior student in 1867 before being appointed as a tutor at the same college in 1869. In the same year, he was ordained as a deacon, followed by priesthood in 1870. He remained at Christ Church until 1876, After his return in 1876, he became the first head of St Stephen's House, Oxford, a ministry training institution that prepared Anglican clergy for missionary work overseas. From 1878, he presided for two years over the Theological College at Salisbury, where he also acted as his father's chaplain. 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.

Throughout his career, Moberly was a prolific writer and his work continued to influence Anglo-Catholic scholarship long after his death. The arguments made in the book were later built on in by eldest son, Walter Hamilton Moberly, in The Ethics of Punishment, published in 1968.

Personal life and death In 1880, Moberly married Alice Sidney Hamilton, the daughter of his father's predecessor, Walter Kerr Hamilton. Together, they had five children: Walter Hamilton Moberly (1881-1974), later Principal of University College of the South West of England and Vice-chancellor of University of Manchester. He was married and had 4 sons, including the diplomat John Moberly. Robert Hamilton Moberly (1884-1978), later Bishop of Stepney and Dean of Salisbury. He was married and had 2 sons. The children of Robert Hamilton's elder son are Elizabeth Moberly and Robert Walter Lambert Moberly, both being theologians. Arthur Hamilton Moberly (1886-1952), later an architect. Violet Isabel Hamilton Moberly (1888-1918). She worked as a nurse during World War I and later died from the Spanish flu, contracted on duty. George Hamilton Moberly (1891-1972). He was married with two sons, the younger of whom was the diplomat Patrick Moberly.

After a long period of delicate health he died in 1903 at Christ Church, Oxford.

Selected publications

(posthumous publication) The Journal of Theological Studies published a review of Moberly's writing by his eldest son, Walter Hamilton, in 1904.