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. He was described as a brilliant scholar in his youth.^[1]

In 1917, he married Rosamund Vere née Smyth; the couple had two sons. He died on 16 September 1978.^[1]

• National Portrait Gallery: Bromide print of Robert Hamilton Moberly by Elliot & Fry, 1952