Robert Mann Hartley is a graduate of Clemson University with a BS in electrical engineering. After 31 years in power plant design engineering, he retired to attend Trinity School for Ministry (Anglican) and Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary. Following ordination, Robert assisted at Church of the Good Shepherd in Columbia, SC, and was vicar of St. John's Episcopal Church in Clearwater, SC, prior to becoming the founding rector of the Anglican Church of the Holy Trinity, North Augusta, SC. Robert is now retired and resides in North Augusta with his wife, Nancy. They have two sons, Rob and Jimmy and four grandchildren, Katherine, William, Robert, and Sinclair.