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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
CommandsChina, 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 at the height of the British Empire and throughout the Second Opium War and the Taiping Rebellion.

Personal life

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Hampden Clement Blamire Moody was born in 1821[1] on 10 January at Bedford Square, London. He was the eighth of ten children of Colonel Thomas Moody, Kt.,[2][3][4] who was a scion of a prominent British family,[5] by Martha Clement (1784 - 1868), who was the daughter of the Dutch landowner Richard Clement (1754 - 1829).[6] His mother was the sister of Hampden Clement [sic] (1808 – 1880)[7] after whom she named Hampden Clement Blamire Moody,[8] and through whom he was related to the cricketers Reynold Clement and Richard Clement.[7] Hampden Clement Blamire Moody's siblings included Major Thomas Moody (1809 - 1839);[3] and Major-General Richard Clement Moody, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Military Merit of France (1813 - 1887), who was the founder and the first 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 Cumberland and a cousin of the politician William Blamire MP and of the poet Susanna Blamire.[11] Hampden Clement Blamire Moody was the uncle of Colonel Richard S. Hawks Moody (1854 - 1930),[12] who was a distinguished British Army officer, and historian, and Military Knight of Windsor, and 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

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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 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 Edward Boxer and Lieutenant-General William Cuthbert Elphinstone Holloway to investigate Canada's defences and lines of communication against the United States.[18] Moody the following year was promoted to captain and began two years of special service in Hudson Bay Territory, for which he and associated troops received "favorable notice" of the Secretary of State and Commander-in-Chief.[15] Moody was a 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

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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

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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,[15][28][29] and to Colonel in November 1864.[15]

Belfast

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Hampden Clement was serving as Commanding Royal Engineer at Belfast when he died on 27 February 1869,[30] at 1 Lower Crescent.[15][31] A memorial to him exists at Balmoral Cemetery, Belfast.[32] He was invested as a Companion of the Order of the Bath.[19]

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 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. ^ 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.
  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. ^ 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.)
  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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