George Moberly (10 October 1803 – 6 July 1885) was an English cleric who was headmaster of

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, and then served as

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from 1869 until his death.

Life

He was born in

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in 1803, the seventh son of Edward Moberly, merchant, and his wife, Sarah Cayley, and educated at

. He matriculated at

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in 1822, and graduating B.A. 1825, and M.A. 1828. He was a Fellow of Balliol from 1826 to 1834. He was ordained deacon in 1826, and priest in 1828. Moberly married Mary Anne Crokat on 22 December 1834 at South Cadbury, Somerset. After his academic career he became headmaster of Winchester in 1835. This post Moberly resigned in 1866, and retired to the Rectory of St. Mary's Church, Brighstone, Isle of Wight, he was also a

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. The Prime Minister

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, however, in 1869 called him to be

, in which see he kept up the traditions of his predecessors, Bishops

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and Denison, his chief addition being the summoning of a diocesan

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. Though Moberly left Oxford at the beginning of the

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, he fell under its influence: the more so that at Winchester he formed a most intimate friendship with Keble, spending several weeks every year at Otterbourne, the next parish to Hursley. Moberly, however, retained his independence of thought, and in 1872 he astonished his

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friends by joining in the movement for the disuse of the damnatory clauses in the

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. His chief contribution to theology is his

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of 1868, on ''The Administration of the Holy Spirit in the Body of Christ''. He died on 6 July 1885.

Family

Moberly married in 1834 Mary Crokat, daughter of Thomas Crokat of Leghorn. There were 15 children of the marriage, eight daughters and seven sons. Five sons and seven daughters survived their father. The children included: *Mary Louisa, the third child, married

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. *

Robert Campbell Moberly Robert Campbell Moberly (26 July 1845 – 8 June 1903) was an English theologian and the first principal of St Stephen's House, Oxford (1876–1878). Life He was the son of George Moberly, Bishop of Salisbury, and faithfully maintained the tradit ...

(1845–1903), was the third son. *

Charlotte Anne Moberly Charlotte Anne Elizabeth Moberly (1846–1937) was an English academic, and first Principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford. Her time-travel book ''An Adventure'', written in 1911 with fellow academic Eleanor Jourdain, became a bestseller. Fami ...

(1846–1937), the tenth child, became the first principal of

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, and was involved in the Moberly-Jourdain incident. *

John Cornelius Moberly John Cornelius Moberly (22 April 1848 – 29 January 1928) was an English first-class cricketer, cricket administrator and solicitor. The fourth son of the cleric George Moberly, he was born at Winchester in April 1848. He was educated at Winc ...

was the fourth son. *Edward Hugh Moberly (born c.1850), son, was a cleric. *Walter Allan Moberly, a cleric, was the sixth son. His great-grandson,

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, was a

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and

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who was involved in the founding of

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References

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