George Moberly (1803-1885) was a Scholar of Winchester College, 1816-1822; Fellow of Balliol, 1826-1834; Headmaster of Winchester, 1835-1869; Bishop of Salisbury, 1869-1885.

Moberly is shown seated in School. This portrait was reproduced in mezzotint by Thomas Lewis Atkinson (published 1854).

Exhibited: Royal Academy, 1853, no. 175

Literature: J.A. Hamilton, revised by Geoffrey Rowell, ‘Moberly, George, (1803-1887)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2004, revised 2009)

Provenance: Presented to the sitter by his friends and former pupils; by descent through the sitter’s family to Agnes Cecilia Moberly (1865-1953), by whom given to Winchester College in 1949

Location: School