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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 MOBERLY (1803-1885)  ,
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English divine, was born on the loth of
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October 1803, and educated at Winchester and Balliol . After a distinguished
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academic career he became head master of Winchester in 1835 . This
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post he resigned in 1866, and retired to Brightstone Rectory, Isle of Wight . Mr . 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
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left Oxford at the beginning of the Oxford
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movement, he fell under its influence: the more so that at Winchester he formed a most intimate friendship with Keble, spending several weeks every
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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
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theology is his Bampton Lectures of 1868, on The Administration of the
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Holy Spirit in the
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Body of Christ . He died on the 6th of
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July 1885 .

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