Founder and first Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia
Richard Clement Moody
|
---|
Richard Clement Moody, 1859
|
|
|
In office
1 October 1841 ? July 1848
|
Monarch
| Queen Victoria
|
---|
Preceded by
| None (Moody inaugural holder)
|
---|
Succeeded by
| George Rennie
|
---|
|
In office
25 December 1858 ? July 1863
|
Monarch
| Queen Victoria
|
---|
Preceded by
| None (Moody inaugural holder)
|
---|
Succeeded by
| Frederick Seymour
|
---|
|
|
Born
| (
1813-02-13
)
13 February 1813
St. Ann's Garrison, Bridgetown, Barbados
|
---|
Died
| 31 March 1887
(1887-03-31)
(aged 74)
Bournemouth
,
England
|
---|
Resting place
| St Peter's Church, Bournemouth
.
|
---|
Nationality
| British
|
---|
Spouse
| Mary Hawks (daughter of
Joseph Hawks JP DL, Sheriff of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
). Married 1852.
|
---|
Relations
|
|
---|
Children
| 13, 11 of which survived infancy, including:
|
---|
Parent(s)
| Colonel Thomas Moody, Kt.
; Martha Clement (1784 ? 1868)
|
---|
Residence(s)
| Government House, New Westminster
|
---|
Education
| Homeschooled
|
---|
Alma mater
| Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
|
---|
Occupation
| Governor; Engineer; Architect; Soldier.
|
---|
|
Allegiance
|
United Kingdom
|
---|
Branch/service
| Royal Engineers
|
---|
Rank
| Major-General
|
---|
Commands
|
|
---|
|
Richard Clement Moody
FICE
FRGS
RIBA
(13 February 1813 – 31 March 1887) was a British colonial governor and
Commander of the Royal Engineers
. He was the founder and the first
Lieutenant-Governor
of
British Columbia
; and the
Commanding Executive Officer of Malta
during the
Crimean War
; and the first British
Governor of the Falkland Islands
.
Moody founded the
Colony of British Columbia
, after he was selected to 'found a second
England
on the shores of the Pacific'
[1]
[2]
by
Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton
: who desired to send to the nascent colony the 'representatives of the best of
British culture
' who had 'courtesy, high breeding, and urbane knowledge of the world'.
The
British Government
deemed Moody to be the definitive 'English
gentleman
and British Officer'.
Moody's original title was 'Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for British Columbia', before he was redesignated first
Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia
, as which he founded the capital of
British Columbia
,
New Westminster
, and he has been described as 'the real father of New Westminster'.
[5]
Moody also founded the
Cariboo Road
and
Stanley Park
, and named
Burnaby Lake
after his secretary
Robert Burnaby
and
Port Coquitlam
's 400-foot 'Mary Hill' after his wife,
Mary Hawks
.
[6]
He also designed the first
Coat of Arms of British Columbia
.
[7]
[8]
Port Moody
, and Moody Park and Moody Square in New Westminster, are named after him.
He was also the first
Governor of the Falkland Islands
, and founded their capital
Port Stanley
.
Moody Brook
in the Falkland Islands, and
Moody Point
in
Antarctica
are named after him.
Moody was a
polymath
who excelled in engineering, architecture, and music. He planned the restoration of
Edinburgh Castle
using musical
chords
, for which he was summoned to
Windsor Castle
for commendation by
Queen Victoria
and
Prince Albert
.
[2]
[9]
He has been described as 'a visionary in a plain land' and 'a man who could conceive of Edinburgh Castle in terms of a musical score'.
Birth and ancestry
[
edit
]
Richard Clement Moody was born, on 13 February 1813,
[11]
at
St. Ann's Garrison
,
Barbados
. He was the third of ten children
[12]
[13]
[14]
of
Colonel Thomas Moody, Kt.
, who was of an influential British family,
[15]
and of Martha Clement (1784 - 1868), who was the daughter of the Dutch landowner Richard Clement (1754 - 1829),
[16]
after whom Richard Clement Moody was named,
[17]
and through whom he was related to the cricketers
Reynold Clement
and
Richard Clement
.
[18]
Richard Clement Moody's siblings included
Major
Thomas Moody (1809 - 1839);
[13]
and
James Leith Moody
(1816 -1896),
[19]
[13]
[12]
who was Chaplain to
Royal Navy
in
China
, and to the
British Army
in the
Falkland Islands
, and
Gibraltar
, and
Malta
, and
Crimea
;
[20]
and
Colonel Hampden Clement Blamire Moody CB
(1821 - 1869),
[13]
[12]
who was Commander of the
Royal Engineers
in
China
[21]
[22]
during the
Second Opium War
and the
Taiping Rebellion
; and Shute Barrington Moody (b. 1818)
[13]
MICE
.
[23]
[24]
[25]
His paternal grandmother was Barbara Blamire of
Cumberland
who was a cousin of the MP
William Blamire
and of the poet
Susanna Blamire
.
[26]
Education
[
edit
]
Richard Clement Moody was
educated by private tutors
[16]
before he enrolled, when he was aged 14 years, in the
Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
, at which he was a Gentleman Cadet
[7]
who became Head of School in his second year and graduated in his third year. Like his father,
[15]
and like his brother Hampden Clement Blamire Moody,
[27]
Richard Clement Moody was a
polymath
who excelled in engineering, and in architecture, and in music, and in science. He planned the restoration of
Edinburgh Castle
using musical
chords
.
[2]
Overview of military and civil career
[
edit
]
Richard Clement trained on the
Ordnance Survey
in 1829,
[16]
and he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the
Royal Engineers
in 1830.
[16]
He was promoted to Lieutenant 1835, to Second Captain in 1844, to Captain in 1847, to Lieutenant-Colonel in 1855, to Colonel in 1858, and to
Major-General
in 1866.
[16]
[12]
[28]
Moody served with the Ordnance Survey in Ireland from 1832
[16]
to 1833.
[12]
He served on St. Vincent from October 1833
[12]
[16]
to September 1837,
[12]
and, subsequently, on a tour the
United States
, with
Sir Charles Felix Smith
, from 1837
[12]
to 1838.
[12]
[16]
On his return from the USA, Moody was stationed at Devonport.
[12]
Moody served as Professor of Fortifications at
Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
from July 1838
[12]
to October 1841.
[29]
[12]
[16]
Moody was in October 1841 appointed Lieutenant-Governor of the Falkland-Islands: this office was renamed Governor of the Falkland Islands in 1843, when he also became Commander-in-Chief of the Falkland Islands. He served in these offices until July 1848, when he left Stanley, and arrived in England in February 1849.
[16]
[12]
Moody in 1848 received the
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Military Merit of France
.
[30]
[31]
He served as an
aide-de-camp
to the British Colonial Office, on special service, from August 1849.
[16]
He served at
Chatham Dockyard
and at Plymouth during 1851.
[16]
[12]
Moody was appointed Commanding Royal Engineer of
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
in 1852, as which he served until 1854.
[16]
[12]
Moody was Executive Officer at
Malta
, during 1854, during the
Crimean War
, but was compelled to resign from this post in May 1855
[12]
as a consequence of insufficient health.
[16]
He toured
Germany
[12]
before his appointment as Commander of the Royal Engineers in Scotland in November 1855.
[12]
[16]
Moody was appointed the Commander of the
Royal Engineers, Columbia Detachment
; the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for British Columbia; and the first
Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia
, from December 1858 to July 1863.
[12]
[11]
Moody arrived in England, from British Columbia, in December 1863.
[12]
He was Commanding Royal Engineer at
Chatham Dockyard
between March 1864 and 1866.
[12]
[2]
[11]
[16]
as which he served until January 1866.
[12]
On 25 January 1866, he was promoted to
Major-General
, and he retired from the British Army, on full pay, later that month.
[12]
Moody then served as a Municipal Commissioner,
[12]
and expended his time between the learned societies of which he was a member.
[16]
Moody was elected an Associate of the
Institution of Civil Engineers
on 23 April 1839, and was therefore one of its oldest members. He was also a
Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
, and a Member of the
Royal Agricultural Society
, and an Honorary Associate of the
Royal Institute of British Architects
.
[16]
[2]
Moody in 1848 received the
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Military Merit of France
.
[30]
[31]
Moody during his retirement lived at
Caynham Court, Ludlow, Shropshire
and later at Fairfield House,
Charmouth
,
Lyme Regis
.
[29]
[12]
His friends included the politician and novelist
Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton
,
[32]
and the biologist
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
.
[33]
Richard Clement Moody died at the Royal Bath Hotel, Bournemouth on 31 March 1887,
[12]
whilst visiting Bournemouth with his daughter,
[16]
and was buried at
St Peter's Church, Bournemouth
.
[29]
He was not able to fulfil his intention to return to British Columbia. He left over £24,000 in money, a vast sum in the Victorian age, in addition to his estates.
[16]
Governor of the Falkland Islands (October 1841 ? July 1848)
[
edit
]
Settlement
[
edit
]
In 1833 the United Kingdom asserted authority over the Falkland Islands. In 1841, Moody, aged only 28 years, was appointed, on the recommendation of
Lord Vivian
, to be the first Lieutenant-Governor of the Falkland Islands.
[16]
It is likely that the illustrious reputation, at the Colonial Office, of Richard Clement Moody's father,
Colonel Thomas Moody, Kt.
, contributed to the Office's decision to appoint him to such an important position at an unprecedentedly young age,
[16]
and, furthermore, to grant him powers that were exceptional even relative to those possessed by other colonial Governors.
[12]
Richard Clement Moody departed England, for Falkland, on 1 October 1841.
[12]
[34]
This post was renamed
Governor of the Falkland Islands
in 1843, when Richard Clement also became Commander-in-Chief of the Falkland Islands.
[35]
Moody was directed by
Lord John Russell
to exercise an authority of 'influence, persuasion, and example'.
[16]
Moody left England, for Falkland, on 9 October 1842.
[16]
When Moody arrived, on board the Hebe,
[35]
at
Port Louis
on 16 January 1842,
[16]
the Falklands was 'almost in a state of anarchy', but he used his powers 'with great wisdom and moderation'
[12]
[2]
to develop the Islands' infrastructure.
[16]
During his first years on the Islands, Moody's only social equal was his secretary, Murrell Robinson Robinson [
sic
], a surveyor and engineer, who was the nephew of one of Moody's tutors.
[36]
Moody appointed Robinson as a JP in 1843. However, Moody and Robinson had an altercation in March 1845 in which Moody banished Murrell from the Islands, telling Robinson to set out 'axe in hand' for some other colony.
[36]
Moody completed a comprehensive General Report of the Falkland Islands for the British Government: it was completed on 14 April 1842 and was sent to London on 3 May.
[16]
In his General Report, Moody recommended that the Government encourage settlers and promote extensive sheep farming. He estimated the population of sheep to be 40,000 in 1842 and encouraged the Government to import quality stock from Britain to be crossed with the local breeds: this policy was implemented to considerable success and was adopted by future settlers.
[34]
The botanist
Joseph Dalton Hooker
, who arrived on the Islands with the expedition of
Sir James Clark Ross
, described Moody as 'a very active and intelligent young man, most anxious to improve the colony and gain every information [
sic
] respecting its products'. Moody granted Hooker full use of his personal library, which Hooker described as 'excellent',
[37]
and the two developed a close friendship.
[33]
Moody's refusal to acquiesce to George Thomas Whitington's attempt to force Moody to travel to the Falkland Islands in Whitington's brig
Alarm
provoked a feud between the Moody family and the Whitington family (the latter of which included John Bull Whitington in the Falkland Islands) that continued throughout Moody's tenure as Governor of the Falkland Islands. Whitington criticised Moody in the Colonial Magazine of November 1844.
[16]
The Foundation of Stanley
[
edit
]
Almost directly after Moody's arrival in 1842 the
Antarctic
Expedition of
Sir James Clark Ross
sailed into Port Louis. Ross advised Moody that he should choose for his capital a site that was more easily accessible to sailing ships than Port Louis.
[38]
Moody followed his advice and investigated the suitability of Port William, which had been recommended by
Lord John Russell
,
[35]
which Moody concluded to be the best site for the new capital of the
Falkland Islands
. He renamed the site
Port Stanley
after
Lord Stanley
, Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, and founded and developed the city, to which he moved his administration moved in 1845.
[16]
Moody designed Government House in Stanley, although his design was only completed in 1850, one year after he had returned to England.
Sir James Ross subsequently named
Moody Point
, off
Joinville Island
in
Antarctica
, after Richard Clement Moody.
[39]
In Falkland, Moody levied a tax on alcohol, without any authorisation from London, and, because there was a lack of currency on the island, issued his own currency, of promissory notes, also without authorisation from London. Both measures resolved immediate problems on the Islands, but Moody was criticized in Parliament, by
Sir William Molesworth, 8th Baronet
, for the latter.
[16]
In June 1843, when Moody's office was renamed 'Governor' (from Lieutenant-Governor), Moody was instructed by the Colonial Office to establish a colonial administration with a Legislative Council and an Executive Council.
[16]
The records of Moody's 'conscientious' and 'impressive' administration of Falkland are held in the Jane Cameron National Archives in Stanley.
[34]
Moody enacted laws, collected duties and taxes, and enforced order. He asked the British authorities for a doctor, a magistrate, and a chaplain: all three were dispatched, the latter being Richard Clement's brother,
James Leith Moody
,
[19]
who arrived in October 1845, proved himself to be 'querulous and eccentric', and engaged in a feud with his brother.
[16]
Richard Clement established residences, Government offices, a barracks, a new road system, docks, a court of law, a gaol, a school, a church, a graveyard, and a police force.
[16]
He established the requested Executive Council and a Legislative Council in 1845, each consisting of British officials, merchants, and local landowners.
[34]
[16]
Moody's activities were impeded by the incompetence of several members of his administration, and he dismissed several of them.
[16]
When during 1846 Moody's father Thomas was posted, from the Colonial Office, to Guernsey, and
Henry Grey, 3rd Earl Grey
became
Secretary of State for War and the Colonies
, the Colonial Office became less sympathetic to Moody.
[16]
Moody repudiated the original settlers of the Islands, but praised his Royal Engineers: he wrote,
our community... chiefly composed of men of the lowest class, formerly seamen in whale ships & sealers, foreigners and Spanish gauchos... the only persons opposed to such wretched material for the formation of a colony are the 5 or 6 gentlemen and the detachment of Royal Sappers and Miners.
[16]
Militia
[
edit
]
In 1845, animosity on the
River Plate
between the British and the French fleets and the
Argentine Government
of
Juan Manuel de Rosas
provoked Moody to request an artillery contingent from Britain and to raise his own militia using his Royal Engineers to train the local population. In 1891, the militia founded by Moody was renamed the Falkland Islands Volunteer Force: it was later renamed again to the
Falkland Islands Defence Force
, and it saw action in both World Wars and during the
Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands in 1982
,
[34]
when, coincidentally, one of the focal points of the Argentine offensive was
Moody Brook
, named after Richard Clement.
Permanent infrastructure
[
edit
]
Moody's authority provoked antipathy in his subordinates, especially his inequable brother James Leith, the Chaplain to the British Force in the Islands. However, from the perspective of the British Government, Richard Clement Moody's tenure was a success, the consequence of which has been 180 years of
British administration of the islands
.
[34]
In 1994, to mark the 150th anniversary of the founding of Stanley, Moody, together with James Clark Ross and Lord Stanley, was commemorated on the Falkland Islands stamps issued.
[16]
[35]
Government House in Stanley, which was designed by Moody, featured on the stamps issued in 1933, to commemorate the Centenary, on those issued in 1983, to commemorate 150 years of British administration of the Islands, and on those issued in 1996 to commemorate the visit, in January of that year, by
Princess Anne
.
[35]
Moody Brook
is named after Richard Clement.
[40]
In 1845 Moody introduced
tussock grass
into Great Britain from Falkland, for which he received the gold medal of the
Royal Agricultural Society
.
[12]
[40]
Moody wrote an account of tussock grass in the Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society (IV.17, V.50,VII.73).
[12]
The
Coat of arms of the Falkland Islands
notably includes an image of tussock grass.
[41]
Moody left the Falkland Islands, for England, on HM Transport Nautilus, in July 1848.
[16]
Moody arrived in England in February 1849.
[40]
[12]
Britain and Malta (February 1849 - October 1858)
[
edit
]
Moody in 1848 received the
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Military Merit of France
.
[30]
[31]
He served as an
aide-de-camp
to the British Colonial Office, on special service, from August 1849.
[16]
During this period, Richard Clement tended to his father,
Colonel Thomas Moody, Kt.
[29]
Richard Clement Moody served at
Chatham Dockyard
and at Plymouth during 1851.
[16]
[12]
Moody was appointed Commanding Royal Engineer of
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
in 1852, as which he served until 1854.
[16]
[12]
During Moody's appointment in this position, a great reservoir at Holmfirth, Yorkshire, burst, on 5 February 1852, and destroyed life and property, and Moody was employed to direct the relief effort and to inspect the other reservoirs in the district.
[12]
Moody was promoted to
Regimental Colonel
on 8 December 1853.
[12]
Moody was appointed Executive Officer of
Malta
, during 1854, during the
Crimean War
. Whilst at Malta, his eldest son,
Richard Stanley Hawks Moody
, later a distinguished Colonel in the British Army, was born, on 23 October 1854, at
Strada Reale
,
Valletta
.
[29]
However, Richard Clement Moody was compelled by his
Yellow Fever
[16]
to resign from his post in May 1855.
[12]
He toured Germany
[12]
before his appointment as
Commander of the Royal Engineers in Scotland
in November 1855, as which he served until October 1858.
[12]
[16]
Moody was in Scotland involved in architectural projects,
[16]
and enjoyed the intellectual society of Edinburgh
[16]
where he met some of the most learned men of Scotland in science and in the arts.
[2]
Musical Plan for Edinburgh Castle and Queen Victoria
[
edit
]
Whilst in Germany, after his resignation from his office at Malta, Moody composed plans for the restoration of
Edinburgh Castle
that were based on a musical architectural principle in which measurements were made 'drawn to musical
chords
'.
[2]
[12]
He has been described as 'a visionary in a plain land' and 'a man who could conceive of Edinburgh Castle in terms of a musical score'.<
His plans so impressed
Lord Panmure
that he was invited to Windsor Castle to present them to
Queen Victoria
and
Prince Albert
, both of whom were talented musicians and both of whom were delighted.
[2]
[9]
[12]
[16]
The implementation of Moody's plans was disrupted by the retirement of
Lord Panmure
and they were never implemented. They are retained at the
War Office
, where 'they still remain a memorial to Moody's talent'.
[2]
Founder and first Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia (October 1858 ? July 1863)
[
edit
]
Selection
[
edit
]
When news of the
Fraser Canyon Gold Rush
reached London,
Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton
, Secretary of State for the Colonies, requested that War Office recommend a field officer who were 'a man of good judgement possessing a knowledge of mankind' to lead a Corps of 150 (later increased to 172) Royal Engineers who had been selected for their 'superior discipline and intelligence'.
[7]
The War Office chose Moody: and Lord Lytton, who described Moody as his 'distinguished friend',
[32]
accepted their nomination, as a consequence of Moody's military record, his success as Governor of the Falkland Islands, and the distinguished record of his father,
Colonel Thomas Moody, Knight
, at the Colonial Office.
[7]
Moody was charged to establish British order and to transform the new
Colony of British Columbia (1858?66)
into the British Empire's 'bulwark in the farthest west'
[42]
and 'found a second England on the shores of the Pacific'.
[32]
[1]
Lytton desired to send to the colony 'representatives of the best of British culture, not just a police force': men who possessed 'courtesy, high breeding and urbane knowledge of the world'
such as Moody, whom the Government considered to be the archetypal 'English gentleman and British Officer'
to command the
Royal Engineers, Columbia Detachment
. Moody's brother,
Colonel Hampden Clement Blamire Moody
, had already served with the
Royal Engineers
in British Columbia, from 1840 to 1848,
[43]
to such success that he was subsequently granted command of the Regiment across the entirety of
China
.
[44]
Richard Clement Moody and his wife Mary Hawks, (of the
Hawks industrial dynasty
and of the Boyd
merchant banking
family), and their four children left England for British Columbia in October 1858 and arrived in
British Columbia
in December 1858,
[16]
with the 172 Royal Engineers of the
Royal Engineers, Columbia Detachment
, and his secretary the
freemason
Robert Burnaby
(after whom he subsequently named
Burnaby Lake
), under his command.
[16]
The original Columbia Detachment consisted of 150 Royal Engineers, both sappers and officers, before it was increased to 172. Moody had three Captains:
Robert Mann Parsons
,
John Marshall Grant
, and
Henry Reynolds Luard
. The contingent included two Lieutenants, both of
British landed gentry
, namely
Lieutenant Arthur Reid Lempriere
(of Dielament, Jersey) and
Lieutenant Henry Spencer Palmer
, and
Doctor John Vernon Seddall
, and
Captain William Driscoll Gosset
(who was to be Colonial Treasurer and Commissary Officer), and
The Rev. John Sheepshanks
(who was to be Chaplain of the Columbia Detachment).
[9]
Moody was sworn in as the first
Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia
and appointed Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for British Columbia.
[16]
Ned McGowan's War
[
edit
]
Moody had hoped to begin immediately the foundation of a capital city, but on his arrival at Fort Langley, he learned of an insurrection at the settlement of Hill's Bar by a notorious outlaw, Ned McGowan, and some restive gold miners.
[16]
Moody repressed the rebellion, which became popularly known as '
Ned McGowan's War
', without loss of life.
[16]
Moody described the incident:
The notorious Ned McGowan, of Californian celebrity at the head of a band of
Yankee Rowdies
defying the law! Every peaceable citizen frightened out of his wits!?Summons & warrants laughed to scorn! A Magistrate seized while on the Bench, & brought to the Rebel's camp, tried, condemned, & heavily fined! A man shot dead shortly before! Such a tale to welcome me at the close of a day of great enjoyment.
Moody described the response to his success: 'They gave me a Salute, firing off their loaded Revolvers over my head?Pleasant?Balls whistling over one's head! as a compliment! Suppose a hand had dropped by accident! I stood up, & raised my cap & thanked them in the Queen's name for their loyal reception of me'.
Foundation of New Westminster
[
edit
]
In British Columbia, Moody 'wanted to build a city of beauty in the wilderness' and planned his city as an iconic visual metaphor for British dominance, 'styled and located with the objective of reinforcing the authority of the Crown and of the robe'.
Subsequent to the enactment of the Pre-emption Act of 1860, Moody settled the
Lower Mainland
. He founded the new capital city,
New Westminster
,
[16]
[12]
at a site of dense forest of Douglas pine
[12]
that he selected for its strategic excellence, including the quality of its port.
He, in his letter to his friend Arthur Blackwood of the Colonial Office, dated 1 February 1859, described the majestic beauty of the site:
"The entrance to the Frazer is very striking--Extending miles to the right & left are low marsh lands (apparently of very rich qualities) & yet
fr
the Background of Superb Mountains- Swiss in outline, dark in woods, grandly towering into the clouds there is a sublimity that deeply impresses you. Everything is large and magnificent, worthy of the entrance to the Queen of England's dominions on the Pacific mainland. [...] My imagination converted the silent marshes into
Cuyp
-like pictures of horses and cattle lazily fattening in rich meadows in a glowing sunset. [...] The water of the deep clear Frazer was of a glassy stillness, not a ripple before us, except when a fish rose to the surface or broods of wild ducks fluttered away"
.
[49]
Moody designed the roads and the settlements of New Westminster,
[12]
and his Royal Engineers, under Captain John Marshall Grant,
[12]
built an extensive road network, including that which became
Kingsway
, which connected New Westminster to
False Creek
; and the North Road between
Port Moody
and New Westminster; and the Pacific terminus, at Burrard's Inlet, of Port Moody, of the Canadian and Pacific Railway (which subsequently was extended to the mouth of the Inlet and terminates now at Vancouver);
[12]
and the
Cariboo Road
; and
Stanley Park
, which was an important strategic area for invaluable the eventuality of an invasion by America. He named
Burnaby Lake
after his secretary Robert Burnaby, and he named Port Coquitlam's 400-foot 'Mary Hill' after his wife Mary Hawks. Moody designed the first
Coat of arms of British Columbia
.
[7]
[8]
Richard Clement Moody established
Port Moody
, which was subsequently named after him, at the end of the trail that connected New Westminster with Burrard Inlet, to defend New Westminster from potential attack from the United States.
[12]
Moody also established a town at Hastings which was later incorporated into Vancouver.
[50]
The British designated multiple tracts as government reserves. The Pre-emption Act did not specify conditions for the distribution of the land, and, consequently, large areas were bought by speculators.
[7]
Moody requisitioned 3,750 acres (sc. 1,517 hectares) for himself,
[7]
and, on this land, he subsequently built for himself, and owned, Mayfield, a model farm near New Westminster.
[50]
Moody was criticised by journalists for
land grabbing
,
[7]
but his requisitions were ordered by the Colonial Office,
[16]
and Moody throughout his tenure in British Columbia received the approbation of the British authorities in London,
[12]
and was in British Columbia described as 'the real father of New Westminster'.
[5]
However, Lord Lytton, then Secretary of State for the Colonies, 'forgot the practicalities of paying for clearing and developing the site and the town' and the efforts of Moody's Engineers were continually impeded by insufficient funds, which, together with the continuous opposition of Governor Douglas, whom Sir
Thomas Frederick Elliot
(1808 - 1880) described as 'like any other fraud',
[51]
'made it impossible for [Moody's] design to be fulfilled'.
Moody's 5th, 6th, and 7th children, all daughters, were born at Government House in New Westminster. He is thought to have also fathered at least two illegitimate children with his Native American housekeeper.
[16]
Feud with Governor Douglas
[
edit
]
Throughout his tenure in British Columbia, Moody feuded with
Sir James Douglas Governor of Vancouver Island
, whose jurisdiction overlapped with his own. Moody's offices of Chief Commissioner and Lieutenant-Governor were of 'higher prestige [and] lesser authority' than that of Douglas, despite Moody's superior social position in the judgement of the Royal Engineers and of the British Government which had selected Moody to 'out manoeuvre the old Hudson's Bay Factor [Governor Douglas]'.
[53]
[54]
Sir
Thomas Frederick Elliot
(1808 - 1880) described Governor Douglas as 'like any other fraud',
[51]
whereas Moody had been selected by Lord Lytton for his qualities of the archetypal 'English gentleman and British Officer', and because his family was 'eminently respectable': he was the son of
Colonel Thomas Moody, Kt.
, who owned land in the islands in which Douglas's father owned less land and from which Douglas's 'a half-breed' mother originated. Governor Douglas's ethnicity was 'an affront to Victorian society',
whereas Mary Moody was a member of the
Hawks industrial dynasty
and of the Boyd
merchant banking
family.
[56]
Mary Moody wrote, on 4 August 1859, 'it is not pleasant to serve under a Hudson's Bay Factor', and that the 'Governor and Richard can never get on'.
John Robson, who was the editor of the
British Columbian
, wanted Richard Clement Moody's office to include that of Governor of British Columbia, and to thereby make obsolete Douglas.
[7]
In letter to the Colonial Office of 27 December 1858, Richard Clement Moody states that he has 'entirely disarmed [Douglas] of all jealously'.
Douglas repeatedly insulted the Royal Engineers by attempting to assume their command
and refusing to acknowledge their contribution to the nascent colony.
Margaret A. Ormsby, who was the author of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography entry for Moody (2002), unpopularly censures Moody for the abortive development of the New Westminster.
[7]
However, most significant historians commend Moody's contribution and exonerate Moody from culpability for the abortive development of New Westminster, especially with regard to the perpetual insufficiency of funds and of the personally motivated opposition by Douglas that continually delayed the development of British Columbia.
Robert Burnaby
observed that Douglas proceeded with 'muddling [Moody's] work and doubling his expenditure'
[53]
and with employing administrators to 'work a crooked policy against Moody' to 'retard British Columbia and build up... the stronghold of
Hudson's Bay
interests' and their own 'landed stake'.
[62]
Therefore, Robert Edgar Cail,
[63]
Don W. Thomson,
[64]
Ishiguro, and Scott commended Moody for his contribution, and Scott accused Ormsby of being 'adamant in her dislike of Colonel Moody' despite the majority of evidence,
and almost all other biographies of Moody, including that by the Institution of Civil Engineers, and that by the Royal Engineers, and that by the British Columbia Historical Association, commend Moody's achievements in British Columbia.
The
Royal Engineers, Columbia Detachment
was disbanded in July 1863. The Moody family (which now consisted of Moody, and his wife, and seven legitimate children)
[16]
and the 22 Royal Engineers who wished to return to England, who had 8 wives between them, departed for England.
[16]
130 of the original Columbia Detachment decided to remain in British Columbia.
[7]
Scott contends that the dissolution of the Columbia Detachment, and the consequent departure of Moody, 'doomed' the development of the settlement and the realisation of Lord Lytton's dream.
A vast congregation of New Westminster citizens gathered at the dock to bid farewell to Moody as his boat departed for England. Moody wanted to return to British Columbia, but he died before he was able to do so.
[67]
Moody left his library behind, in New Westminster, to become the public library of New Westminster.
[16]
[7]
In April 1863, the Councillors of New Westminster decreed that 20 acres should be reserved and named Moody Square after Richard Clement Moody. The area around Moody Square that was completed only in 1889 has also been named Moody Park after Moody.
[68]
Numerous developments occurred in and around Moody Park, including Century House, which was opened by
Princess Margaret
on 23 July 1958. In 1984, on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of New Westminster, a monument of Richard Clement Moody, at the entrance of the park, was unveiled by Mayor Tom Baker.
[69]
For Moody's achievements in the Falkland Islands and in British Columbia,
British diplomat David Tatham CMG
, who served as Governor of the Falkland Islands, described Moody as an 'Empire builder'.
[16]
In January 2014, with the support of the Friends of the British Columbia Archives and of the Royal British Columbia Museum Foundation, The Royal British Columbia Museum purchased a photograph album that had belonged to Richard Clement Moody. The album contains over 100 photographs of the early settlement of British Columbia, including some of the earliest known photographs of First Nations peoples.
[70]
Marriage and issue
[
edit
]
On 6 July 1852, at
St Andrew's Church, Newcastle upon Tyne
, Moody married Mary Susannah Hawks of the
Hawks industrial dynasty
, who was the daughter of the merchant banker
Joseph Hawks JP DL Sheriff of Newcastle
,
[12]
[16]
[71]
[72]
and of Mary Boyd of the Boyd
merchant banking
family. Mary Hawks's maternal uncles included Admiral
Benedictus Marwood Kelly
and industrialist
Edward Fenwick Boyd
.
[56]
After their marriage, Richard and Mary Moody embarked on a
Grand Tour
of Europe, including of
France
, and of
Switzerland
, and of
Germany
.
[29]
Richard Clement Moody named the 400-foot hill in
Port Coquitlam
, British Columbia, 'Mary Hill', after his wife. However, Mary Moody disliked British Columbia, and described living there as 'roughing it in the bush' relative to living in England.
[73]
The Royal British Columbia Museum has 42 letters written by Mary Moody from the
British Empire
, mostly from the
Colony of British Columbia (1858?66)
, to her mother and to her sister, Emily Hawks, who were in England.
[74]
Mary Moody was highly erudite in English and in French literature, and her letters were of interest to scholars of British families during the Victorian period.
[76]
[77]
Moody and Mary Hawks had 13 children.
[78]
Moody is thought to have also fathered at least two illegitimate children with his Native American housekeeper whom he left in British Columbia.
[16]
The 13 children of Moody and Mary Hawks were:
[78]
- Josephine ('Zeffie')
[9]
Mary (b. 1853, Newcastle, d. 1923). A fabric embroiderer of
Fisherton de la Mere
.
[79]
[80]
Married Arthur Newall, who was a son of
Robert Stirling Newall
, in 1883, by whom she had two sons: namely Robert Stanley
FSA
(b. 1884),
[29]
who was an archaeologist for the
Commissioners of Woods and Forests
, and who made excavations at
Stonehenge
with
William Hawley
;
[81]
and Basil (b. 1885).
- Colonel Richard S. Hawks Moody CB Military Knight of Windsor
(b. 1854,
Valetta
, Malta - d. 1930,
Windsor Castle
). Married Mary Latimer, 1881, by whom he had four children. His eldest daughter, Mary Latimer, married the military surgeon
Major-General James Fitzgerald Martin KStJ
. His youngest daughter, Barbara Bindon, married the choral conductor
James W. Webb-Jones
.
[82]
- Charles Edmund (b. 1856,
Edinburgh
). Attended
Cheltenham College
. Businessman.
[83]
Married Kate Ellershaw in 1885, by whom he had three daughters, the eldest of whom, Kathleen (b. 1886) married
Sir Donald Kingdon, Chief Justice of the Gold Coast
.
[84]
- Walter Clement (b. 1858, Edinburgh, d. 1936). Married Laura Rynd in 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 in 1887, with whom she had two sons and two 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 through
Sir William Chaytor
. He attended
Rugby School
and
Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst
.
[85]
He served, between 1885 and 1887, in the
Burmese Expedition
with the
2nd Battaltion the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment
, for which he received the medal with clasp. He served in the
Second Boer War
as
aide-de-camp
to
Major-General Clements
, who was the Commander of the
12th Infantry Brigade
, and he was
mentioned in despatches
on 10 September 1901.
[86]
[87]
Married Daisy Leighton by whom he did not have issue.
[88]
He is buried at
Krugersdorp
Garden of Remembrance, in South Africa, and commemorated at
Hereford Cathedral
.
[89]
- 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), who was the son of
Captain
Charles Frederick Holford
OBE
DSO
, on 10 August 1935.
[90]
- Ruth and Rachel (Twins b. 20 April 1870, d. (both) 21 April 1870).
[91]
References
[
edit
]
- ^
a
b
Barman, Jean (2007).
The West Beyond the West: A History of British Columbia
. University of Toronto Press. p. 71.
ISBN
978-1-4426-9184-1
.
- ^
a
b
c
d
e
f
g
h
i
j
Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Volume 90, Issue 1887, 1887, pp. 453-455, OBITUARY. MAJOR-GENERAL RICHARD CLEMENT MOODY, R.E., 1813-1887.
- ^
a
b
Edward, Mallandaine (1887).
The British Columbia Directory, containing a General Directory of Business Men and Householders..
. E. Mallandaine and R. T. Williams, Broad Street, Victoria, British Columbia. p. 215 in New Westminster District Directory.
- ^
"Col. Richard Clement Moody -- Postscript"
. Archived from
the original
on 8 September 2019
. Retrieved
4 July
2016
.
- ^
a
b
c
d
e
f
g
h
i
j
k
l
Ormsby (1982)
- ^
a
b
"Heraldic Science Heraldique, Arms and Devices of Provinces and Territories, British Columbia"
. Retrieved
3 November
2016
.
- ^
a
b
c
d
"Colonel Moody and what he did prior to arriving in British Columbia"
. Retrieved
4 July
2016
.
- ^
a
b
c
"The Royal Engineers: Colonel Richard Clement Moody"
. Archived from
the original
on 8 August 2016
. Retrieved
3 November
2016
.
- ^
a
b
c
d
e
f
g
h
i
j
k
l
m
n
o
p
q
r
s
t
u
v
w
x
y
z
aa
ab
ac
ad
ae
af
ag
ah
ai
aj
ak
al
am
an
ao
ap
aq
ar
as
at
au
av
aw
Vetch1894
, p. 332
- ^
a
b
c
d
e
"Legacies of British Slave-Ownership: Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Moody: Profile and Legacies Summary"
. University College London
. Retrieved
6 June
2016
.
- ^
Hall, Catherine (2014).
Legacies of British Slave-Ownership
. Cambridge University Press. p. 61.
- ^
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
.
- ^
a
b
c
d
e
f
g
h
i
j
k
l
m
n
o
p
q
r
s
t
u
v
w
x
y
z
aa
ab
ac
ad
ae
af
ag
ah
ai
aj
ak
al
am
an
ao
ap
aq
ar
as
at
au
av
aw
ax
ay
az
ba
bb
bc
bd
be
bf
bg
bh
bi
Tatham, David.
"Moody, Richard Clement"
.
Dictionary of Falklands Biography
.
- ^
"Legacies of British Slave Ownership: Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Moody: Imperial Legacy Details"
.
- ^
"Hampden Clement: Profile and Legacies Summary,
Legacies of British Slave Ownership
, UCL"
. University College London. 2019.
- ^
a
b
Tatham, David.
"Moody, James Leith"
.
Dictionary of Falklands Biography
.
- ^
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.
- ^
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.
- ^
Meehan, John D.
Chasing the Dragon in Shanghai: Canada's Early Relations with China, 1858-1952
. p. 17.
- ^
Parliamentary Papers
. H.M. Stationery Office. 1848. p. 129.
- ^
Newton, W. (1844).
Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences
. p. 293.
- ^
Scoffern, John
(1849).
The Manufacture of Sugar in the Colonies and at Home: Chemically Considered
. p. A2.
- ^
"The Moody Family, Some Longtown Families"
. Archived from
the original
on 3 March 2016
. Retrieved
4 July
2016
.
- ^
"Moody, Hampden Clement"
. Government of Canada: Canadian Artists Online. 17 October 2012
. Retrieved
3 June
2017
.
- ^
"The Sapper Vol. 5 No. 1 June 1958"
. Archived from
the original
on 26 January 2021
. Retrieved
4 July
2016
.
- ^
a
b
c
d
e
f
g
"The Photographic Album of Richard Clement Moody, Royal British Columbia Museum"
(PDF)
.
- ^
a
b
c
The New Annual Army List for 1848, p.683
. Au Bureau Du Spectateur Militaire, 1848.
- ^
a
b
c
"Statue of R. C. Moody in Sash and Star of Knight Grand Cross of Institution du Merite Militaire (1848)"
. Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Col. R. C. Moody
. Retrieved
25 April
2022
.
- ^
a
b
c
Drummond, Sir Henry (1908). "XXIII".
Rambling Recollections, Vol. 1
. Macmillan and Co., London. p. 272.
- ^
a
b
Tatham, David.
"Ross, Sir James Clark"
.
Dictionary of Falklands Biography
.
- ^
a
b
c
d
e
f
Government of the Falkland Islands (2013).
Our Islands, Our History
. Falkland Islands Museum and National Trust, Falkland Islands. p. Administration and Government.
- ^
a
b
c
d
e
"Falkland Islands Newsletter". No. 89. Falkland Islands: Falkland Islands Association. December 2005. p. 9.
- ^
a
b
Tatham, David.
"Robinson, Murrell Robinson"
.
Dictionary of Falklands Biography
.
- ^
Tatham, David.
"Hooker, Sir Joseph Dalton"
.
Dictionary of Falklands Biography
.
- ^
Government of the Falkland Islands (2013).
Our Islands, Our History
. Falkland Islands Museum and National Trust, Falkland Islands. p. Origins: The Sea and Islands.
- ^
"Moody Point"
.
Geographic Names Information System
.
United States Geological Survey
,
United States Department of the Interior
. Retrieved
4 November
2013
.
- ^
a
b
c
Sweetman, John. "Moody, Richard Clement".
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
(online ed.). Oxford University Press.
doi
:
10.1093/ref:odnb/19085
.
(Subscription or
UK public library membership
required.)
- ^
Wagstaff, William (2001).
Falkland Islands
. Bradt Travel Guides. p. 18.
ISBN
9781841620374
. Retrieved
1 February
2013
.
- ^
Donald J. Hauka, McGowan's War, Vancouver: 2003, New Star Books, p.146
- ^
"Royal Engineers Museum, Library and Archive, Gillingham, Kent: Individual Records"
(PDF)
. Retrieved
3 June
2017
.
- ^
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.
- ^
Barman, Jean (2007).
The West Beyond the West: A History of British Columbia
. University of Toronto Press. p. 7.
ISBN
978-1-4426-9184-1
.
- ^
a
b
Brissenden, Constance (2009).
The History of Metropolitan Vancouver's Hall of Fame: Who's Who, Moody
. Vancouver History.
- ^
a
b
"
'Elliot, Thomas Frederick', University of Victoria British Columbia, Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia"
. Retrieved
30 April
2023
.
- ^
a
b
"Letters of Robert Burnaby, 3rd December 1859"
. Archived from
the original
on 8 August 2016
. Retrieved
6 June
2016
.
- ^
Dorothy Blakey Smith, ed., 'The Journal of Arthur Thomas Bushby, 1858 - 1859,' British Columbia
- ^
a
b
Howard, Joseph Jackson; Crisp, Frederick Arthur, eds. (1900).
"Boyd of Moor House, Co. Durham"
.
Visitation of England and Wales
. Vol. 8. pp. 161?164.
- ^
"Letters of Robert Burnaby, 22 February 1859"
. Archived from
the original
on 8 August 2016
. Retrieved
6 June
2016
.
- ^
Cail, Robert Edgar (1974).
Land, Man, and the Law: The Disposal of Crown Lands in British Columbia, 1871-1913
. University of British Columbia Press. p. 60.
ISBN
978-0-7748-0029-7
.
- ^
Thomson, Don W. (1966).
Men and Meridians: The History of Surveying and Mapping in Canada
. Queen's printer. p. 282.
ISBN
9780660115580
.
- ^
New Westminster Council.
Parks & Recreation History of Park Sites and Facilities, Moody Park…
. p. 67.
- ^
New Westminster Council.
Parks & Recreation History of Park Sites and Facilities, Moody Park…
. p. 62.
- ^
New Westminster Council.
Parks & Recreation History of Park Sites and Facilities, Moody Park…
. p. 65.
- ^
The Royal British Columbia Museum: Annual Report: 2013 - 2014
- ^
"Letters of Mary Moody, Royal British Columbia Museum Archives"
(PDF)
. Retrieved
4 July
2016
.
- ^
Fordyce, T. (1866).
Local Records : or, Historical Register of Remarkable Events, which have occurred in Northumberland and Durham, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and Berwick-upon-Tweed from the Earliest Period of Authentic Record to the Present Time [...]
T. Fordyce, Newcastle upon Tyne. p. 172.
- ^
British Columbia Archives, MS-0060, Letter from Mary Susanna Hawks-Moody to mother Mary Hawks, New Westminster, 4 June 1860.
- ^
"Letters of Mary Moody, Royal British Columbia Museum Archives"
(PDF)
. Retrieved
4 July
2016
.
- ^
"The University of British Columbia, Records of the British Columbia Historical Association, British Columbia Historical News"
. British Columbia Historical Association
. Retrieved
4 July
2016
.
- ^
"Relative Distances: Family and Empire between Britain, British Columbia and India, 1858-1901, Laura Ishiguro, University College London"
(PDF)
.
- ^
a
b
"The Photographic Album of Richard Clement Moody, Royal British Columbia Museum"
(PDF)
.
- ^
"Fisherton de la Mere, Wiltshire, British History Online"
.
- ^
Marsh, Gail, Early Twentieth Century Embroidery, GMC Publications, pp.141 - 143
- ^
"Sarsen.org, A List of Stonehenge Excavations"
.
- ^
"Webb-Jones, James William, (12 Feb. 1904?29 Dec. 1965), Headmaster of the Junior School, Wells Cathedral, Wells, since September 1955".
Entry for WEBB-JONES, James William (1904 - 1965) in Who's Who, Oxford Index
. Oxford University Press. December 2007.
doi
:
10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U49421
.
- ^
Hunter, Andrew Alexander (1890).
Cheltenham College Register, 1841-1889
. George Bell and Sons, London. p.
295
.
- ^
The Cambria Daily Leader, Thursday 20 August 1914, The National Library of Wales
- ^
"No. 25262"
.
The London Gazette
. 24 August 1883. p. 4169.
- ^
Dooner, Mildred G.
The Last Post - Roll of Officers who fell in South Africa 1899-1902
. Naval and Military Press.
- ^
Michell, Arthur Tompson.
Rugby School Register, Vol. III, 1874-1905
. A. J. Lawrence, Rugby Press. p. 57.
- ^
"Colonel Moody's Family"
. Retrieved
4 July
2016
.
- ^
"Boer War Memorial, Hereford Cathedral"
. Retrieved
5 December
2016
.
- ^
"Conqueror5"
. Retrieved
4 July
2016
.
- ^
"Album - Colonel Richard Clement Moody, Royal Engineers [British Columbia]"
(PDF)
.
Sources
[
edit
]
- "The Photographic Album of Richard Clement Moody, Royal British Columbia Museum"
(PDF)
.
- "Letters of Mary Moody, Royal British Columbia Museum Archives"
(PDF)
. Retrieved
4 July
2016
.
- Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Volume 90, Issue 1887, 1887, pp. 453-455, OBITUARY. MAJOR-GENERAL RICHARD CLEMENT MOODY, R.E., 1813-1181
.
- Tatham, David.
"Moody, Richard Clement"
.
Dictionary of Falklands Biography
.
- Sweetman, John. "Moody, Richard Clement".
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
(online ed.). Oxford University Press.
doi
:
10.1093/ref:odnb/19085
.
(Subscription or
UK public library membership
required.)
- Vetch, Robert Hamilton
(1894).
"Moody, Richard Clement"
.
Dictionary of National Biography
. Vol. 38. p. 332-333.
- Cleall, Esme; Ishiguro, Laura; Manktelow, Emily J. (Spring 2013).
"Imperial Relations: Histories of family in the British Empire"
.
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History
.
14
(1).
doi
:
10.1353/cch.2013.0006
.
S2CID
162030654
.
- "The Royal Engineers: Colonel Richard Clement Moody"
. Archived from
the original
on 8 August 2016
. Retrieved
3 November
2016
.
- Daniel Francis
(Editor)
(1999).
Encyclopedia of British Columbia
. Harbour Publishing.
ISBN
1-55017-200-X
.
- Derek Hayes (2005).
Historical Atlas of Vancouver and the Lower Fraser Valley
. Douglas & McIntyre. pp. 26?29.
ISBN
978-1-55365-283-0
.
- Arthur S. Morton (1973) [1939].
A History of the Canadian West to 1870-71, Second Edition
. University of Toronto Press. p. 775f.
ISBN
0-8020-0253-6
.
- Moody, Richard Clement (January 1951). Willard E. Ireland (ed.).
"Letter of Colonel Richard Clement Moody, R.E., to Arthur Blackwood, February 1, 1859"
.
British Columbia Historical Quarterly
.
XV
(1 & 2): 85?107.
- Scott, Laura Elaine (1983).
The Imposition of British Culture as Portrayed in the New Westminster Capital Plan of 1859 to 1862
(PDF)
(M.A. thesis). Simon Fraser University.
- Ormsby, Margaret A. (1982).
"Moody, Richard Clement"
. In Halpenny, Francess G (ed.).
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
. Vol. XI (1881?1890) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.