Military Service
He was educated at the Royal Military College Woolwich 1827-29.
He was appointed as a Second Lieutenant Royal Engineers 05/11/1830.
He was appointed as a Lieutenant RE (With seniority dated 25/11/1835).
He was appointed as Professor of Fortification as Woolwich in 1838.
He was the first Governor of the Falkland Islands 1841-49.
He was appointed as a Second Captain RE (With seniority dated 06/03/1844).
He was appointed as a Captain RE (With seniority dated 19/08/1847) and to Lieutenant-Colonel Royal Engineers (With seniority dated 13/01/1855).
He arrived at Victoria BC 25/12/1858 as commander of a detachment of Royal Engineers.
He was appointed as a Member of the Colonial Executive Council and was appointed as Commissioner of Lands and Public Works of the Colony of British Columbia.
He selected New Westminster as the new capital of the colony.
He was appointed as a Colonel RE (With seniority dated 05/12/1863).
He returned to England in 1863 when the Detachment was disbanded.
He was appointed as a Major-General RE on 25/01/1866.
He retired on 25/01/1866.
Named Features
Port Moody (BC) (Burrard Inlet) (by Captain Richards 1885); Colonel Moody (steamship);
References
- Walbran, Captain John T. (1909)
- Woodward, Frances M. (1974)
- Brissenden, Constance with Larry Loyie (1997) Greater Vancouver Hall of Fame. In The Greater Vancouver Book: an urban encyclopedia. Ed. Chuck Davis. Vancouver BC: Linkman Press.
