John Stoward Moyes (1884 - 1972)

Born 25 Jul 1884 in Koolunga, South Australia

Husband of Helen Margaret (Butler) Moyes — married 1909 in Adelaide, South Australia

Husband of Mary (Scott-Holland) Moyes — married 30 Aug 1971 in Hornsby, New South Wales, Australia

Died 29 Jan 1972 at age 87 in Hornsby, New South Wales, Australia

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Biography

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John Stoward Moyes ^[1] (1884-1972), Anglican bishop, and Alban George (Johnny) Moyes (1893-1963), journalist and cricket commentator, were born on 25 July 1884 at Koolunga, South Australia, and 2 January 1893 at Gladstone, eldest surviving and youngest of six children of John Moyes, schoolteacher, and his wife Ellen Jane, née Stoward, both from New South Wales. Morton Henry Moyes was their brother. Educated at the Collegiate School of St Peter, Adelaide, the three Moyes brothers were all called 'John'; 'Johnny' stuck to Alban who detested his given name. John Stoward Moyes studied psychology and logic at the University of Adelaide (B.A., 1905; M.A., 1907) and became president of the university branch of the Australian Student Christian Movement; he later wrote that the S.C.M. had introduced him to a Christianity of 'grace and love', not merely 'law and commandments'. Entering St Barnabas' Theological College, he was made deacon on 22 December 1907 and ordained priest on 21 December 1908 by the bishop of Adelaide.

His first appointment (1907) was to a curacy in the parish of St Paul's, Port Pirie. At St Cyprian's Church, North Adelaide, on 22 April 1909 he married Helen Margaret Butler (d.1970), daughter of (Sir) Richard Butler. In 1911-13 Moyes worked as assistant-curate in the London parish of Lewisham. The extreme poverty he witnessed there, and that which he had seen at Port Pirie during the 1908-09 lockout, consolidated his commitment to a social application of the gospel. He returned to South Australia in 1913 and took up the rectorship of St Cuthbert's, Prospect.

In 1929 he was appointed Bishop of Armidale.^[2] He held that position until 1964, when he retired to Vaucluse in Sydney.^[1]

After his wife Helen died in 1970, he remarried to 87-year-old widow Mary Scott Pentreath (nee Holland) on 30 August 1971 at St Peter's Church, Hornsby. He died on 29 January 1972 at Hornsby and was cremated. He was survived by his second wife, and four sons and two daughters from his first marriage.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Anne O'Brien, Moyes, John Stoward (1884–1972), Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University,
   published first in hardcopy 2000, accessed online 7 January 2019.
2. ↑ BISHOP OF ARMIDALE (1929, December 2). The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), p. 10. Retrieved September 24, 2023, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16606528

See also:

• Wikidata: Item Q6249671
• Wikipedia: John Moyes (bishop)