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George
Moberly (10 October 1803 – 6 July 1885) was an
English divine who served as Bishop of Salisbury from 1869
until his death. He
was born in St Petersburg, Russia
in 1803, and educated at Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford. He married Mary
Anne Crokat on 22 December 1834 at Oxford. After a distinguished academic
career he became head master of Winchester in 1835. This post he resigned in
1866, and retired to the Rectory of St. Mary's Church, Brighstone, Isle of
Wight, he was also a Canon of Chester
Cathedral.The Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, however, in 1869
called him to be Bishop of Salisbury, in which see he kept up
the traditions of his predecessors, Bishops Hamilton and Denison, his chief addition being the
summoning of a diocesan synod. Though Moberly left Oxford at the beginning of the Oxford
Movement, 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 High Church
friends by joining in the movement for the disuse of the damnatory clauses in
the Athanasian Creed. His chief contribution to
theology is his Bampton Lectures of 1868, on The
Administration of the Holy Spirit in the Body of Christ.His daughter Charlotte Anne Moberly became the first
principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford, and co-authored
under the pen name "Elisabeth Morison" An Adventure (1911), in
which she relates her purported encounter with the ghost of Marie-Antoinette
in the gardens of the Petit Trianon in 1901. His great-grandson, Dick Milford,
was a clergyman
and educator
who was involved in the founding of Oxfam. He died on 6 July
1885.