Robert Hamilton Moberly was the 7th

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Bishop of Stepney from 1936 until 1952 when he was appointed Dean of Salisbury. He was born into an eminent ecclesiastical family in 1884His grandfather was Bishop George Moberly and his father the Rev Canon Professor Robert Campbell Moberly > "Who was Who 1897-1990" London,

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, 1991 and educated at Winchester College and

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before embarking on an ecclesiastical career with a curacy at

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. During the Great War, he served from June, 1917, as a Temporary Chaplain to the Forces, and was regarded as ‘A1’. Inner city posts followedHe was a protégé of

Luke Paget Henry Luke Paget (1853−1937) was the 4th Anglican Bishop of Stepney from 1909 until 1919 when he was appointed Bishop of Chester. Paget was born in 1853 and educated at Shrewsbury and Christ Church, Oxford before embarking on an ecclesiasti ...

before promotion to the Suffragan Bishopric of Stepney, a post he held until transferring to the

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at Salisbury sixteen years later. A brilliant scholar''Former Bishop of Stepney and Dean of Salisbury '' The Times Tuesday, Sep 19, 1978; pg. 32; Issue 60410; col B he died in 1978.

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National Portrait Gallery: Bromide print of Robert Hamilton Moberly by Elliot & Fry, 1952
1884 births People educated at Winchester College Alumni of New College, Oxford Bishops of Stepney Deans of Salisbury 20th-century Church of England bishops 1978 deaths {{ChurchofEngland-bishop-stub