Maurice Key
Maurice Key was the Anglican Bishop of Sherborne then Truro in the third quarter of the 20th century.
He was educated at Rossall School and Pembroke College, Cambridge and ordained in 1928. Beginning his ministry with a curacy at St Mary’s Portsea he was successively Vicar of Aylesbeare, Rector of Newton Abbot and finally Rural Dean of the Three Towns.
Key failed to take action or to launch an investigation into Jeremy Dowling,. A review found, “There is no doubt that there were a number of missed opportunities for the diocese of Truro to undertake its own investigations into the allegations made in 1972 against Jeremy Dowling.” The review also stated, “No institution or organisation should have relied on a police criminal investigation to make judgments on the conduct of those it employs or engages with. It has its own responsibilities to judge such behaviour. These judgments are not tied to the criminal standard but to the civil standard, ie ‘are events more likely than not to have happened’ or ‘on the balance of probabilities’.”
He was the father of Robert Key, a politician.
