Hampden Clement Blamire Moody

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Colonel
Commands heldChina, Belfast.
Battles/wars
Awards
Companion of the Order of the Bath
MemorialsBalmoral Cemetery, Belfast
Alma materRoyal Military Academy, Woolwich
Relations

CB (1821 – 27 February 1869) was the Commander of the Royal Engineers in China at the height of the British Empire and throughout the Second Opium War and the Taiping Rebellion
.

Personal life

Hampden Clement Blamire Moody was born in 1821

Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia, and the first British Governor of the Falkland Islands; and The Rev. James Leith Moody (1816 -1896),[9][3][2] who was Chaplain to Royal Navy in China and to the British Army in the Falkland Islands, and Gibraltar, and Malta, and Crimea.[10]

Hampden Clement Blamire Moody's paternal grandmother was Barbara Blamire of the Blamire family of

Captain Henry de Clervaux Moody (b. 1864).[13]

Hampden Clement Blamire Moody married Louise Harriet Thompson, who was the daughter of Samuel Thompson, at Belfast.[citation needed] Moody had two daughters: Sophia Louise (b. 14 October 1862) and Harriet Maud Maria (b. 12 February 1867); and had one son Hampden Lewis Clement (b. 28 February 1855, Hong Kong), who was a Captain of the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment.[14]

Career

Canada

Hampden Clement Blamire Moody, Interior of Hudson's Bay Company post at Pembina, pen and ink sketch, circa 1847, C-35062 of Public Archives of Canada

Moody was commissioned in 1837, and promoted to Lieutenant in 1839,[15] and served with the Royal Engineers in Canada from 1840 to 1848. He was based at Fort Garry, which was a trading post of the Hudson's Bay Company,[1] of which he was a member,[16][17] and for which, between 1844 and 1846, he performed confidential service, probably behind United States border.[1] In 1845, Moody assisted

freemason of St. Paul's Lodge No. 12 (Ancient York Masons) in Montreal.[19]

Hampden Clement Blamire Moody, An ice boat at Penetanguishene, Lake Huron, Upper Canada from Bainbrigge sketch, watercolour, c. 1845, National Archives of Canada, C-11914[20]

He was an accomplished artist: his typical paintings depict Canadian landscapes,[21][16][22] and are in The National Archives of the United Kingdom,[23] Public Archives of Canada,[24] and Provincial Archives of Manitoba.[25]

Kaffir War

Moody fought in the Kaffir War of 1851 to 1853,[16] during which he received a medal and a notice, for gallant conduct on 13 June 1852, when he had led a detachment of Royal Engineers in Koonap Pass whilst significantly outnumbered.[15] In 1852, he was Senior Royal Engineer on the Waterkloof and Transkei expeditions with Sir George Cathcart.[15]

China

Moody was the Commander of the Royal Engineers across all of China during the Second Opium War (1856 – 1860)[26] and, from April and May 1862, during the Taiping Rebellion, near Shanghai.[15][16] The Royal Engineers were an elite military force who performed 'reconnaissance work, led storming parties, demolished obstacles in assaults, carried out rear-guard actions in retreats and other hazardous tasks'.[27] During that time, Moody was promoted to Major in October 1858, and to Lieutenant-Colonel on 28 November 1859,

Colonel in November 1864.[15]

Belfast

Hampden Clement was serving as Commanding Royal Engineer at Belfast when he died on 27 February 1869,

Companion of the Order of the Bath.[19]

References

  1. ^ a b c "North American Collection" (PDF). Royal Engineers Museum, Library and Archive, Gillingham, Kent. National Museums Scotland. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
  2. ^ a b Vetch, Robert Hamilton (1894). "Moody, Richard Clement" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 38. p. 332-333.
  3. ^ a b c "Legacies of British Slave-Ownership: Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Moody: Profile and Legacies Summary". University College London. Retrieved 6 June 2016.
  4. ^ Hall, Catherine (2014). Legacies of British Slave-Ownership. Cambridge University Press. p. 61.
  5. S2CID 144301729
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  6. ^ Tatham, David. "Moody, Richard Clement". Dictionary of Falklands Biography.
  7. ^ a b "Hampden Clement: Profile and Legacies Summary, Legacies of British Slave Ownership, UCL". University College London. 2019.
  8. ^ "Legacies of British Slave Ownership: Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Moody: Imperial Legacy Details".
  9. ^ Tatham, David. "Moody, James Leith". Dictionary of Falklands Biography.
  10. ^ Hughes-Hughes, W. O. (1893). Entry for Moody, James Leith, in The Register of Tonbridge School from 1820 to 1893. Richard Bentley and Son, London. p. 30.
  11. ^ "The Moody Family, Some Longtown Families". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
  12. ^ "MOODY, Col Richard Stanley Hawks, Who Was Who, A & C Black, Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014".
  13. ^ "Boer War Memorial, Hereford Cathedral". Retrieved 5 June 2017.
  14. ^ "No. 28054". The London Gazette. 27 August 1907. p. 5865.
  15. ^ a b c d e f g h Colburn's United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal. 1869. p. 605.
  16. ^ a b c d Meehan, John D. Chasing the Dragon in Shanghai: Canada's Early Relations with China, 1858–1952. p. 17.
  17. ^ "London Daily News, 22 March 1849". 22 March 1849. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
  18. ^ W. A. B. Douglas. Boxer, Edward. Vol. 8. University of Toronto. Retrieved 3 June 2017. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  19. ^ a b A.T. Freed. "Early History of Freemasonry in Upper Canada" (PDF). p. 104. Retrieved 3 June 2017 – via Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon of the Freemasons.
  20. ^ "Artwork". Canadian Heritage Gallery Online. 1999. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
  21. ^ "Moody, Hampden Clement". Government of Canada: Canadian Artists Online. 17 October 2012. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
  22. ^ "Hampden Clement Blamire Moody, sketch, 'Winter Costume at Fort Garry' (1847)", Acc. No. 1957-102-1:A, Library and Archives Canada
  23. ^ "Copies of Quebec Sketches, The National Archives UK". Retrieved 3 June 2017.
  24. ^ "Interior of Hudson Bay Company post at Pembina, circa 1847. Pen and ink sketch by Hampton Moody", C-35062, Public Archives of Canada
  25. ^ "General Survey of Upper Fort Garry and Its Immediate Vicinity", Captain Hampden C.B. Moody, et al., Provincial Archives of Manitoba, 31 July 1848
  26. ^ War Office of Great Britain (1863). Return to an Address of the Honourable The House of Commons, dated 25 June, 1863 : for, "Copy of the Correspondence Between the Military Authorities at Shanghai and the War Office Respecting the Insalubrity of Shanghai as a Station for European Troops:" "And, Numerical Return of Sickness and Mortality of the Troops of All Arms at Shanghai, from the Year 1860 to the Latest Date, showing the Per-centage upon the Total Strength". p. 107.
  27. ^ Hammond, Peter (August 1998). "General Charles Gordon and the Mahdi Faith Under Fire in the Sudan". Reformation Society. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  28. ^ "Promotions and Appointments". The United Service Magazine. H. Colburn. 1865. p. 155.
  29. ^ H.G. Hart (1868). The New Army List, and Militia List. p. 94.
  30. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/19085. (Subscription or UK public library membership
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  31. ^ The Register; and Magazine of Biography, A Record of Births, Marriages, Deaths, and other Genealogical and Personal Occurrences: I. Nichols & Sons. 1869. p. 344.
  32. ^ "XV – Balmoral Cemetery". Belfast Evening Telegraph. 26 April 1907.

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