He was the son of
George Moberly,
Bishop of Salisbury, and faithfully maintained the traditions of his father's teaching. His sister was the writer
Charlotte Anne Moberly. Educated at
Twyford School,
Winchester College, and
New College, Oxford. He was appointed senior student of
Christ Church in 1867 and tutor in 1869. In 1876 he went out with
Bishop Copleston to
Ceylon for six months. After his return, he became the first head of St Stephen's House, Oxford (1876–1878), and then, after presiding for two years over the Theological College at Salisbury, where he acted as his father's chaplain, he accepted the college living of Great Budworth in Cheshire in 1880, and the same year married Alice, the daughter of his father's predecessor,
Walter Kerr Hamilton. In 1892,
Lord Salisbury made him
Regius Professor of Pastoral Theology at the
University of Oxford and a canon of
Christ Church Cathedral in that city. He was appointed an honorary chaplain to
Queen Victoria in July 1898, and in early January 1901 was appointed Chaplain-in-Ordinary to Her Majesty. The Queen died later that month, and Moberly was re-appointed Chaplain-in-Ordinary to her successor,
King Edward VII. After a long period of delicate health he died at Christ Church. He was the father of
Walter Hamilton Moberly and
Robert Hamilton Moberly. ==Works==