Walter Moberley (1881-1974; WWW), educationalist and prominent liberal lay churchman; fellow, Merton Coll. Oxford, 1904-7, Lincoln Coll., 1906-21; professor of philosophy, Birmingham Univ., 1921-4, vice-chancellor, Univ. of Manchester, 1926-34; chairman, University Grants Committee, 1935-49; friend and ally of William Temple; author of two essays in Foundations. A statement of Christian belief in terms of modern thought (1912); supporter of Industrial Christian Fellowship; member of COPEC 1924, archbishops' commission on Christian doctrine, 1922-38, Pilgrim Trust enquiry on unemployment, 1936-8, and Oxford conference on Life and Work, 1937; chairman, archbishops' commission on church and state, 1949-52; principal, St Katherine's, Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, 1949-55.

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