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Colonel

Hampden Clement Blamire Moody

CB
Born1821
Bedford Square, London
Died27 February 1869 (aged 47–48)
Belfast, Ireland
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service / branchRoyal Engineers
RankColonel
CommandsHong Kong; China; Belfast.
Battles / wars
AwardsCompanion of the Order of the Bath
MemorialsBalmoral Cemetery, Belfast
Alma materRoyal Military Academy, Woolwich
Relations

Colonel Hampden Clement Blamire Moody CB (1821 – 27 February 1869) was the Commander of the Royal Engineers in China throughout the Second Opium War and the Taiping Rebellion.

Personal life

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Hampden Clement Blamire Moody was born on 10 January 1821,[1] at Bedford Square, London, into a traditional merchant family with a history of military service.[2] He was eighth of ten children[3][4] of Colonel Thomas Moody, CRE WI, Kt.,[2] and of Martha Clement (1784 - 1868) who was the daughter of the landowner Richard Clement (1754 - 1829):[5][6] and through whom he was related to the Belgravia cricketers Reynold Clement and Richard Clement.[7] His paternal grandmother was Barbara Blamire of Cumberland who was a cousin of the MP William Blamire and of the poet Susanna Blamire.[8]

Hampden Clement Blamire Moody's siblings included Major Thomas Moody (1809 - 1839);[4] and Major-General Richard Clement Moody (1813 – 1887) (who was the first British Governor of the Falkland Islands, and the founder of British Columbia);[4][3][9] and James Leith Moody (1816 -1896)[9][4][3] (who was Chaplain to Royal Navy in China, and to the British Army in the Falkland Islands, and Gibraltar, and Malta, and Crimea);[10] and the Etonian[11][12] engineer[13][14][15] Shute Barrington Moody (b. 1818).

Issue

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Hampden Clement Blamire Moody married Louise Harriet Thompson, who was the daughter of Samuel Thompson, at Belfast.[citation needed] They had two daughters, Sophia Louise (b. 14 October 1862) and Harriet Maud Maria (b. 12 February 1867), and one son Captain Hampden Lewis Clement (b. 28 February 1855, Hong Kong) of the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment.[16]

Career

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Canada

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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 into the Royal Engineers in 1837 and promoted to Lieutenant in 1839.[17] He served in Canada from 1840 to 1848, for which he was based at Fort Garry (which later became Winnipeg) which was a trade-base of the Hudson's Bay Company,[1] of which he was a member,[18][19] and for which, between 1844 and 1846, he performed confidential service behind the USA border.[17][1] In 1845, Moody assisted Edward Boxer and Lieutenant-General William Cuthbert Elphinstone Holloway to investigate Canada's defences and communications against the USA.[20] Moody during 1846 was promoted to Captain and began two years of special service in Hudson Bay Territory, for which he received 'favorable notice' of the Secretary of State and of the Commander-in-Chief.[17]

Moody was a freemason of St. Paul's Lodge No. 12 (Ancient York Masons) in Montreal.[21]

Hampden Clement Blamire Moody, 'An Ice Boat at Penetanguishene, Lake Huron, Upper Canada, From Bainbrigge Sketch' (Watercolour, Circa 1845) (National Archives of Canada, C-11914)[22]

Moody was an accomplished artist[18] whose typical paintings depict Canadian landscapes,[23][18][24] and are in The National Archives of the United Kingdom,[25] Public Archives of Canada,[26] and Provincial Archives of Manitoba.[27]

Kaffir War

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Moody fought in the Kaffir War of 1851 to 1853,[18] for which he received a medal and a notice for his gallant conduct on 12 and 13 June 1852, on which he had led a significantly outnumbered group of Royal Engineers in Koonap Pass[17] during a shootout against rebel Khoekhoe between wagons and dwellings.[28] Moody was Senior Royal Engineer on the 1852 Waterkloof and Transkei expeditions with Sir George Cathcart.[17]

Hong Kong and China

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Moody was the Commander of the Royal Engineers across all of Hong Kong and China during the Second Opium War (1856 – 1860)[29] and, from April and May 1862, during the Taiping Rebellion, near Shanghai.[17][18] The Royal Engineers were a land-marine force who performed 'reconnaissance work, led storming parties, demolished obstacles in assaults, carried out rear-guard actions in retreats and other hazardous tasks'.[30] Moody was promoted to Major in October 1858, and to Lieutenant-Colonel on 28 November 1859,[17][31][32] and to Colonel in November 1864.[17]

Belfast

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Moody was serving as Commanding Royal Engineer at Belfast when he died on 27 February 1869,[33] at 1 Lower Crescent.[17][34] A memorial to him exists at Balmoral Cemetery, Belfast.[35] He was invested as a Companion of the Order of the Bath.[21]

References

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  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 Rupprecht, Anita (September 2012). "'When he gets among his countrymen, they tell him that he is free': Slave Trade Abolition, Indentured Africans and a Royal Commission". Slavery & Abolition. 33 (3): 435–455. doi:10.1080/0144039X.2012.668300. S2CID 144301729.
  3. ^ a b c Vetch1894, p. 332
  4. ^ a b c d "Legacies of British Slave-Ownership: Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Moody: Profile and Legacies Summary". University College London. Retrieved 6 June 2016.
  5. ^ Tatham, David. "Moody, Richard Clement". Dictionary of Falklands Biography.
  6. ^ "Legacies of British Slave Ownership: Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Moody: Imperial Legacy Details".
  7. ^ "Hampden Clement: Profile and Legacies Summary, Legacies of British Slave Ownership, UCL". University College London. 2019.
  8. ^ "The Moody Family, Some Longtown Families". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
  9. ^ a b 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. ^ Stapleton, H.E.C. (1884). "Year 1829". The Eton College School Lists from 1791 to 1877, with Notes and Index. Simpkin, Marshall, and Company, London. p. 146.
  12. ^ "Correspondence with Major Moody, of Barrington, Shute (1734 - 1826), Bishop of Durham".
  13. ^ Parliamentary Papers. H.M. Stationery Office. 1848. p. 128.
  14. ^ Newton, W. (1844). Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences. p. 293.
  15. ^ Scoffern, John (1849). The Manufacture of Sugar in the Colonies and at Home: Chemically Considered. p. A2.
  16. ^ "No. 28054". The London Gazette. 27 August 1907. p. 5865.
  17. ^ a b c d e f g h i Colburn's United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal. 1869. p. 605.
  18. ^ a b c d e Meehan, John D. Chasing the Dragon in Shanghai: Canada's Early Relations with China, 1858–1952. p. 17.
  19. ^ "London Daily News, 22 March 1849". 22 March 1849. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
  20. ^ W. A. B. Douglas. Boxer, Edward. Vol. 8. University of Toronto. Retrieved 3 June 2017. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  21. ^ 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.
  22. ^ "Artwork". Canadian Heritage Gallery Online. 1999. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
  23. ^ "Moody, Hampden Clement". Government of Canada: Canadian Artists Online. 17 October 2012. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
  24. ^ "Hampden Clement Blamire Moody, sketch, 'Winter Costume at Fort Garry' (1847)", Acc. No. 1957-102-1:A, Library and Archives Canada
  25. ^ "Copies of Quebec Sketches, The National Archives UK". Retrieved 3 June 2017.
  26. ^ "Interior of Hudson Bay Company post at Pembina, circa 1847. Pen and ink sketch by Hampton Moody", C-35062, Public Archives of Canada
  27. ^ "General Survey of Upper Fort Garry and Its Immediate Vicinity", Captain Hampden C.B. Moody, et al., Provincial Archives of Manitoba, 31 July 1848
  28. ^ W. R. King, 74th Highlanders. Campaigning in Kaffirland, in The Kaffir War of 1851-1852. Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street, 1853.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  29. ^ 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.
  30. ^ 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.
  31. ^ "Promotions and Appointments". The United Service Magazine. H. Colburn. 1865. p. 155.
  32. ^ H.G. Hart (1868). The New Army List, and Militia List. p. 94.
  33. ^ John Sweetman (2004). "Moody, Richard Clement (1813–1887)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/19085. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  34. ^ The Register; and Magazine of Biography, A Record of Births, Marriages, Deaths, and other Genealogical and Personal Occurrences: I. Nichols & Sons. 1869. p. 344.
  35. ^ "XV – Balmoral Cemetery". Belfast Evening Telegraph. 26 April 1907.
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