MOODIE, Susannah (youngest dau. of Thomas Strickland of Reydon hall, Suffolk, d. 1818, and younger sister of Agnes Strickland 1796–1874). b. Reydon hall 6 Dec. 1803; m. 1831 the preceding; went with her husband to Canada 1832; author of Enthusiasm and other poems 1831; Life in the clearing versus the bush 1853; Mark Huddlestone the gold worshipper 2 vols. 1853; The soldier’s orphan or Hugh Latimer 1853; Something more about the soldier’s orphan 1853; Flora Lyndsay or passages in an eventful life 1854; Matrimonial speculations 1854; The Moncktons 2 vols. 1856; The world before them 3 vols. 1868; George Leatrim or the mother’s test 1875; and assisted by J. W. D. Moodie, Roughing it in the bush or life in Canada 2 vols. 1852. d. Toronto 8 April 1885. J. M. Strickland’s Life of Agnes Strickland (1887) 85, 192; Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis (1867) 281; Appleton’s American Biography, iv 376 (1888), portrait.
MOODY, John E. b. 1815; comic singer at the Cyder Cellars and other places of amusement in London; sang at opening of Canterbury music hall, London 17 May 1852. d. 27 Euston place, New road, London 7 Nov. 1852.
MOODY, Richard Clement (2 son of Thomas Moody, colonel R.E. d. 1846). b. St. Ann’s garrison, Barbados, West Indies 13 Feb. 1813; 2 lieut. R.E. 5 Nov. 1830, colonel 8 Dec. 1863, retired on full pay with rank of M.G. 25 Jany. 1866; professor of fortification at royal military academy, Woolwich 3 July 1838 to 1840; A.I.C.E. 23 April 1839; the first governor of the Falkland Islands 1840–6; introduced the tussac-grass into Great Britain 1845, for which he received gold medal of Royal Agricultural society; commanded R.E. in North Britain 8 Nov. 1855 to 1858; drew up plans for restoration of Edinburgh Castle; lieut. governor of British Colombia 1858 to Dec. 1863 and founder of the temporary capital, New Westminster; commanded R.E. in Chatham district March 1864 to Jany. 1866; lived at Lyme Regis, Dorset 1866 to death; comr. for extension of municipal boundaries 1868. d. Bournemouth 31 March 1887. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xc 453–5 (1887).
MOODY, Stephen. Entered Bengal army 1805; ensign 4 Bengal N.I. 24 Dec. 1806, lieut. 16 Dec. 1814; captain 7 N.I. 21 May 1824, lieut.-col. 14 June 1842 to 26 May 1843; lieut.-col. of 59 N.I. 26 May 1843 to 1845, of 20 N.I. 1845–48, of 32 N.I. 1848–50, of 70 N.I. 1850–51, and of 11 N.I. 1851–52; col. of 17 N.I. 27 Oct. 1852 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. d. 42 Porchester sq. Hyde park, London 28 Nov. 1856.
MOODY, William (2 son of Aaron Moody of Kingsdon, Somerset, d. 1820). b. Porchester, Hants. 1794; ed. at Winchester sch. and Trin. coll. Camb., 9 wrangler 1815, B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818; fellow of his college 1816; barrister L.I. 11 Feb. 1820; standing counsel to Trin. coll. Camb.; published with Edward Ryan, Reports of cases determined at nisi prius 1827; with Benjamin Heath Malkin, Reports of cases determined at nisi prius 1831; with Frederic Robinson, Reports of cases determined at nisi prius 2 vols. 1837–44; Crown cases reserved for consideration from 1824–37, 2 vols. 1837–44. d. 38 Onslow sq. London 9 Oct. 1867.
MOON, Sir Francis Graham, 1 Baronet (youngest son of Christopher Moon, gold and silver smith). b. 4 Holborn Bars, Holborn, London 28 Oct. 1796; employed by Edward Tugwell book and print seller, 55 Threadneedle st., purchased the business on Tugwell’s death 1817; became the leading print publisher in London; purchased stock of Hurst, Robinson and Co. print publishers 1825; member of firm of Moon, Boys and Graves, Pall Mall 1825; carried on his own business at corner of Finch lane; reproduced some of the finest works of sir D. Wilkie, sir C. Eastlake, sir E. Landseer, D. Roberts, S. Prout, C. R. Leslie, C. Stanfield and G. Cattermole; published at cost of £50,000 David Roberts’ Sketches in the Holy Land 1842; invited by Louis Philippe as a guest to St. Cloud; common councilman for Broad st. ward, city of London 1830–44; sheriff of London 1843–4; alderman of Portsoken ward 1844–71 and of Bridge Without 1871; lord mayor 1854–5; received emperor and empress of the French at Guildhall 19 April 1855; created baronet 4 May 1855; a chevalier of legion of honour; F.S.A. 9 June 1853; resided 35 Portman sq. London. d. Western house, Brighton 13 Oct. 1871. bur. Fetcham churchyard, Surrey 20 Oct. I.L.N. xxv 460 (1854) portrait, lix 387, 399, 401 (1871) portrait; The City Press 21 Oct. 1871 p. 2, 28 Oct. p. 2.
MOORE, Adolphus Warburton (son of major John Arthur Moore a director of H.E.I.C.) Ed. Harrow 1855 etc.; junior clerk in secretary’s office India house Aug. 1858, in the financial department 1860, senior clerk June 1867, reading clerk to the council 1871–5, joined the political department 1874, assist. secretary Feb. 1875, retired 1885; acting political sec. 1876–8; private sec. to Lord Randolph Churchill 1885, sec. to the chancellor of the exchequer and private sec. to sec. of state for India 1886; political and secret sec. India house Jany. 1887 to death; C.B. 1886; one of the ablest members of the civil service. d. Monte Carlo 2 Feb. 1887. The Times 3 Feb. 1887 p. 6.
MOORE, Albert Joseph (13 son and 14 child of Wm. Moore, portrait painter 1790–1851). b. York 4 Sep. 1841; ed. at Kensington gr. sch. 1855–8; studied in art school of the R.A. 1858; designed pictorial figures for architects in ceilings &c.; painted decorative pictures from 1865; executed the proscenium of the Queen’s theatre, Long Acre 1867; exhibited 31 pictures at R.A. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1857–79; his pictures are in the public collections of Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester; an exhibition of his works was held at the Grafton gallery, London 1894. d. 2 Spenser st. Victoria st. Westminster 25 Sep. 1893. bur. Highgate cemet. Temple Bar, liii 342–6 (1878); The Portfolio, i 5–6 (1870); I.L.N. 3 Feb. 1894, supplement pp. 1–4, portrait and 15 views of his paintings; St. James’s Budget 29 Sep. 1893 p. 3, portrait.
MOORE, Alexander. b. 1809; a shipwright’s apprentice; master shipwright, then chief instructor Devonport dockyard 1865–78. d. Dockyard terrace, Devonport 1 April 1878. Report Devonshire Association, x 57–8 (1878).
MOORE, Alfred William. b. Guernsey 1823; known as fatty Moore; ed. at London hospital, L.S.A. 1849; M.R.C.S. 1850; under a special diet lost 3 stone in weight 1846, William Banting and John Harvey disputed his claim to the invention of the system; surgeon accoucheur Provident medical institute, Pimlico road, London; author of The dietary of corpulence 1856; Corpulency i.e. fat or embonpoint in excess. Letters to the Medical Times and Gazette explaining his newly discovered diet system to reduce the weight 1856; resided 2 Bessborough st. Pimlico, London. d. 24 March 1882. Sporting Review lii 398–400 (1864).