Robert Mortimer

Robert Cecil Mortimer (6 December 1902 - 11 September 1976^[1] was an Anglican bishop in the Church of England.^[2]

Mortimer was educated at St Edward's School, Oxford^[3] and Keble College in the same city. He was ordained in 1927 and was a curate at St Mary's Redcliffe, Bristol.^[4] He then became a lecturer in canon law and then the Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology^[5] at the University of Oxford before his ordination to the episcopate as the Bishop of Exeter in 1949.^[6][7] He held this position for 24 years.

Mortimer was also a notable author.^[8] He had four children, one of whom is the journalist and author Edward Mortimer.

References

1. ^ "Obituary: The Right Rev Robert Mortimer Former Bishop of Exeter", The Times, 13 September 1976, p16.)
2. ^ "New Bishop of Exeter", The Times, 11 February 1949, p4.
3. ^ “Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 071363457X
4. ^ Church Web Site
5. ^ "University News", The Times, 11 February 1944, p7.
6. ^ National Archives
7. ^ Genuki
8. ^ Among other books he wrote Gambling (1933), Origins of Private Penance (1939), The Elements of Moral Theology (1947), Marriage in Church and State (1947), Christian Ethics (1950), The Duties of a Churchman (1951) and Western Canon Law (1953).