George Herbert Moberly

The Reverend Canon

George Herbert Moberly
Prebendary of Salisbury
ChurchChurch of England
In office1889 – 1895
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Born(1837-01-03)3 January 1837
Winchester
Died30 April 1895(1895-04-30) (aged 58)
Winchester
DenominationAnglicanism
ParentsGeorge Moberly (father)
Spouse
Esther, née de Castro
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(m. 1870)​
Children5
EducationWinchester College
Corpus Christi College, Oxford

George Herbert Moberly (3 January 1837 – 30 April 1895)[1] was an English priest, academic, and author.

Early life and education

The eldest son of George Moberly, later Bishop of Salisbury, and his wife Mary Ann, Moberly was born on 3 January 1837 in Winchester. From 1848, he was educated at Winchester College, where his father was headmaster at the time.[2]

In 1855, aged 18, he matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he was a scholar and graduated with a BA in 1859.[3] During his time at Oxford, he won the Stanhope essay prize in 1958,[2] the Ellerton Theological Prize in 1860,[4] and the Arnold Prize in 1861.[5][6] He was awarded with an MA in 1861, but kept his scholarship until 1864, when he was elected a fellow of his college.[3]

Career

Joining the clergy

Like his father and many other members of his family, Moberly was ordained into the Church of England, first as a deacon in 1860 and then as a priest in 1861.[2] He was a curate at St Peter-in-the-East in Oxford from 1860 to 1863 before moving to the parish of Assington, Suffolk, where he was based from 1864 to 1865.[7]

Academic and senior postings

Moberly held the fellowship at Corpus Christi College from 1864 until 1870. From 1869 to 1871 was a tutor, chaplain, and lecturer in law and modern history, at the University of Bonn.[3]

Moberly returned to England in 1871 to take up the post of Rector of Duntisbourne Rouse, Gloucestershire, a benefice he held until 1880. He then spent five years as Principal of Lichfield Theological College[8] and as a prebendary of Lichfield Cathedral, and from 1878 was also Master of St Nicholas Hospital, Salisbury. In 1887 he was appointed as Rector of Monkton Farleigh, in Wiltshire.[1][3] From 1889 until his death in 1895, he was also a prebendary of Salisbury.[9][2]

Personal life and death

In 1870, Moberly married Esther de Castro, with whom he had two sons and three daughters.[1] He died at Cintra House, Winchester, on 30 April 1895.[9]

Selected publications

References

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  1. 1 2 3 "Moberly". Burke's Landed Gentry. Vol. 3 (18th ed.). Burke's Peerage. 1972. p. 661.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Wainewright, John Bannerman, ed. (1907). Winchester College, 1836-1906: A register. Winchester: P. and G. Wells. p. 113.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Foster, Joseph (1891). "Moberly, George Herbert" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886. Vol. III. Oxford: James Parker & Co – via Wikisource.
  4. ↑ George Herbert Moberly, Life and Immortality brought to light by the Gospel, an essay which obtained the Ellerton Theological Prize in the University of Oxford, 1860 (Oxford: J. Vincent, 1860)
  5. ↑ Moberly, George Herbert (1861). The Christians in Rome, during the first three centuries. London: Whitaker & Co.
  6. ↑ University of Oxford (1870). The Oxford Ten-Year Book: A register of University honours and distinctions, completed to the end of the year, 1870. James Parker & Co. pp. 201, 208, 209, 540.
  7. ↑ "Moberly, George Herbert". Crockford's Clerical Directory (4th ed.). London: Horace Cox. 1868. p. 462.
  8. ↑ "Ecclesiastical Appointments". The Times. No. 29958. 1880-08-12. p. 11. Full access available to users of The Wikipedia Library.
  9. 1 2 "MOBERLY the reverend George Herbert of Cintra House Winchester clerk... £1037 8s. 3d." in Wills and Administrations (England and Wales) 1895 (1896), p. 287
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