Walter Hamilton Moberly

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Sir Walter Hamilton Moberly GBE KCB Kt DSO (b. 20 October 1881–1974) was a British academic.

The son of Rev. Robert Campbell Moberly, Moberly was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford. He was later a lecturer in political science at the University of Aberdeen from 1905-06 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 1921-24, Principal of the University College of the South West of England from 1925-26, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manchester from 1926-34, Chairman of the University Grants Committee from 1935-49 and Principal of St Catherine's Foundation from 1949-55.

Moberly was also an author, having written such books as The Crisis in the University (1949) and The Ethics of Punishment.