Moberly, Right Rev. George

D.C.L. (Oxford, 1836), lord bishop of Salisbury (Sarum), Church of England; b. in St. Petersburg, Ru ia, Oct. 10, 1803; d. at Salisbury, July 6, 1885. He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford; graduated B.A. (first-cla cla ics) 1825, M. A. 1828; won English e ay prize, 1826; was ordained deacon 1826, priest 1828; was fellow and tutor of Balliol College; public examiner in the university, 1830 and 1833-35; select preacher, 1833, 1858, 1863; head master of Winchester College, 1835-66; rector of Bright stone, Isle of Wight, 1866-69; fellow of Winchester College, 1866-70; Bampton lecturer, 1868; canon of Chester, 1868-69; consecrated bishop, 1869. He was the author of Practical Sermons, London, 1838; Sermons preached at Winchester College, 1844, 2d series (with a preface on fagging) 1848; The Sayings of the Great Forty Days between the Resurrection and Ascension, regarded as Outlines of the Kingdom, of God (five sermons) 1844, 2d ed. (with An Examination of Mr. Newman's Theory of Development) 1846; The Proposed Degradation and Declaration considered (a letter addre ed to the^master of Balliol), Oxford, 1845; All Saints, Kings, and Priests (two sermons on papal aggre ion, preached at Winchester), London, 1850; The Law of the Love of God (an e ay), 1854; Sermons on the Beatitudes, Oxford, 1860; Five Short Letters to Sir William Heath cote, on the Studies and Discipline of Public Schools, London, 1861; The Administration of the Holy Spirit in the Body of Christ (Bampton Lectures), 1868; Sermons at Bright stone, 1869, 3d ed. 1874. He was one of the " five clergymen " (Henry Alford, John Barrow, Charles John Ellicott, William Gilson Humphry), who published a revised version of John, Romans, Corinthians, Galatians, and James; and a member of the New-Testament Revision Company. *