Mary Moberly

Moberly was born in Warwickshire. Her father, Revd Charles Edward Moberly, Her mother was Catherine (born Temple) and Moberly's uncle was Frederick Temple, who was the head of Rugby School (for boys) between 1858 and 1869. Her grandfather, Octavius Temple, was the Lieutenant Governor of Sierra Leone. She was a great-granddaughter of the cleric and essayist William Johnson Temple. Her cousin, William Temple, was the Archbishop of Canterbury. Moberly is thought to have been home educated, but this gave her sufficient grounding to be accepted at Newnham College in Cambridge in 1878 with her five higher exam passes. She was a leading scholar and under Henry Sidgwick's guidance she was given distinctions in two subjects and she was awarded a first class pass (no degrees for women) in the Moral Science Tripos. == Career ==

Upon finishing school, Moberly decided to teach. Moberly became the head teacher in 1891 of the GDST's Gateshead High School which was not thriving. She moved to Newcastle in 1895. There had previously been a GDST preparatory school in Newcastle but this was expanded and it was renamed to be the Central Newcastle High School. The GDST school in Gateshead continued until it was smoothly merged under her leadership into the Newcastle school in 1907. She employed several teachers from Gateshead and established a core of good teachers even though the school was not well equipped. Moberly retired in 1911. == Death ==

Moberly died at her home in 1940. == References ==