page_title: Richard Clement Moody
section_title: Issue
hierarchical_section_title: Richard Clement Moody / Issue
caption_attribution_description: Photograph of Richard Stanley Hawks Moody (1854 - 1930), of 3rd Regiment of Foot, taken c.1885, before his departure to Malta in 1885, to which he had been posted as Brigade Major in 1885.
context_page_description: His Excellency, Major-General The Honourable Richard Clement Moody FICE FRGS RIBA was a British Imperialist, Colonial Governor, Royal Engineer, musician, and architect. He is best known for being the founder and first Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia, and for being the first British Governor of the Falkland Islands. He has been described by 20th-century British diplomat David Tatham CMG, as an 'Empire builder'.
  Richard Clement Moody was the founder of British Columbia as Colony of British Columbia, having been hand picked to "found a second England on the shores of the Pacific". The Colonial Office under Lord Lytton desired to send to the nascent Colony 'representatives of the best of British culture' who possessed ‘courtesy, high breeding and urbane knowledge of the world’ and decided to send Moody, whom the British Government considered to be the archetype of the 'English gentleman and British Officer’, as Commander of the Royal Engineers, Columbia Detachment, Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for British Columbia, and the first Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia.
  Moody is considered to be the founding father of British Columbia.
context_section_description: Moody and Mary Hawks had 13 children. Moody is also reported to have fathered at least two further children with his native American housekeeper which he left in British Columbia. The 13 children of Moody and Mary Hawks were:
  Josephine 'Zeffie' Mary (b.1853, Newcastle, d. 1923). A fabric embroiderer based at Fisherton de la Mere, Wiltshire. Married Arthur Newall, son of Robert Stirling Newall, in 1883. Had 2 sons, Robert Stanley FSA, (b.1884), an Office of Woods archaeologist who made landmark excavations at Stonehenge with William Hawley, and Basil (b.1885).
  Colonel Richard Stanley Hawks Moody CB, Military Knight of Windsor (b. 23 Oct 1854, Malta, - d. 10 March 1930). Married Mary Latimer, 1881, and had four children. His eldest daughter, Mary Latimer, married James Fitzgerald Martin. His youngest daughter, Barbara Bindon, married James William Webb-Jones.
  Charles Edmund (b. 1856, Edinburgh). Attended Cheltenham College. Businessman. Married Kate Ellershaw, 1885. Had 3 daughters, the eldest of whom, Kathleen (b.1886) married Sir Donald Kingdon, Chief Justice of the Gold Coast.
  Walter Clement (b. 1858, Edinburgh, d. 1936). Married Laura Rynd, 1888.
  Susan (b 1860, Government House, New Westminster, British Columbia, d.1940).
  Mary (b.1861 Government House, New Westminster, British Columbia, d. 1938).
  Margaret (b. 1863, Government House, New Westminster, British Columbia). Married the Rev. Richard Lowndes, 1887. Had 2 sons and 2 daughters.
  Captain Henry de Clervaux (b. 1864, d. 13 December 1900, killed in action at Battle of Nooitgedacht, Second Boer War). He was named after his ancestor William Clervaux of Croft, from whom he descended via Sir William Chaytor. He attended Rugby School and Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.  Served in the Burmese Expedition between 1885-87 with the 2nd Battaltion the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment and received the medal with clasp. Served in Second Boer War as aide-de-camp to Major-General Clements, commander of the 12th Infantry Brigade, and was mentioned in despatches on 10 September 1901. Married Daisy Leighton. No issue. Buried at Krugersdorp Garden of Remembrance, South Africa, and commemorated at Hereford Cathedral.
  Grace (b.1865, d.1947).
  Gertrude (b.1869, d.1914).
  Major George Robert Boyd (b. 1865, d. 1936). Married Dorothy Wingfield. His daughter, Rosemary Moody (1903 - 1982), married Richard Edward Holford (1909 - 1983), son of Captain Charles Frederick Holford OBE DSO, on 10 August 1935.
  Ruth and Rachel (Twins b. 20 April 1870, d. (both) 21 April 1870).
caption: Richard Clement Moody's eldest son, Colonel Richard Stanley Hawks Moody, CB (1854 - 1930).
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