Walter Hamilton Moberly - Life

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The son of Rev. Robert Campbell Moberly and the grandson of George Moberly, he was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford. Moberley was later a lecturer in political science at the University of Aberdeen from 1905 to 1906 and served in World War I with the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, being twice mentioned in despatches.

After the war, he was professor of philosophy at the University of Birmingham from 1921 to 1924, Principal of the University College of the South West of England from 1925 to 1926, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manchester from 1926 to 1934, Chairman of the University Grants Committee from 1935 to 1949 and Principal of St Catherine's Foundation from 1949 1955.

Moberly was also an author, having written such books as The Crisis in the University (London: SCM Press) and The Ethics of Punishment (London: Faber, 1968 ISBN 0-571-08438-9).

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