page_title: Hampden Clement Blamire Moody
section_title: Canada
hierarchical_section_title: Hampden Clement Blamire Moody / Career / Canada
caption_attribution_description: English: Hampden Clement Blamire Moody, Interior of Hudson Bay Company post at Pembina, pen and ink sketch, circa 1847, C-35062 of Public Archives of Canada
context_page_description: Colonel Hampden Clement Blamire Moody, CB 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.
context_section_description: Moody entered the service in 1837, became a Lieutenant in 1839, and served with the Royal Engineers in Canada from 1840 to 1848. He was based at Fort Garry, the trading post of the Hudson's Bay Company, of which he was a member, and for which, between 1844 and 1846, he performed confidential service, probably behind United States border.
  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. The following year, he became a Captain and began two years of special service in Hudson Bay Territory. For his efforts, Hampden and associated troops received "favorable notice" of the Secretary of State and Commander-in-Chief.
  Hampden Clement's brother, Richard Clement Moody, the founder and first Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia, was also a member of the Royal Engineers.
  Moody was a Freemason, a member of St. Paul's Lodge No. 12 (Ancient York Masons) in Montreal.
  He was also an accomplished artist: his paintings typically depict Canadian landscapes, and are in The National Archives of the United Kingdom, Public Archives of Canada, and Provincial Archives of Manitoba.
caption: 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
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