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GEORGE MOBERLY (1803-1885)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 635 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GEORGE See also:MOBERLY (1803-1885)  , See also:English divine, was See also:born on the loth of See also:October 1803, and educated at See also:Winchester and Balliol . After a distinguished See also:academic career he became See also:head See also:master of Winchester in 1835 . This See also:post he resigned in 1866, and retired to Brightstone Rectory, Isle of See also:Wight . Mr . See also:Gladstone, however, in 1869 called him to be See also:bishop of See also:Salisbury, in which see he kept up the traditions of his predecessors, Bishops See also:Hamilton and See also:Denison, his See also:chief addition being the summoning of a diocesan See also:synod . Though See also:Moberly See also:left See also:Oxford at the beginning of the Oxford See also:movement, he See also:fell under its See also:influence: the more so that at Winchester he formed a most intimate friendship with See also:Keble, spending several See also:weeks every See also:year at Otterbourne, the next See also:parish to Hursley . Moberly, however, retained his See also:independence of thought, and in 1872 he astonished his High See also:Church See also:friends by joining in the movement for the disuse of the damnatory clauses in the Athanasian Creed . His chief contribution to See also:theology is his See also:Bampton Lectures of 1868, on The See also:Administration of the See also:Holy Spirit in the See also:Body of See also:Christ . He died on the 6th of See also:July 1885 .

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