Shute Barrington Moody

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Shute Barrington Moody
MICE
Born(1818-02-21)21 February 1818
Teignmouth, Devon, England
Died2 June 1851(1851-06-02) (aged 33)
Australia
Education Eton College
Occupation Civil engineer
Known forReports to British Parliament about sugar manufacture in the West Indies and the Caribbean
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Shute Barrington Moody MICE was a British civil engineer who reported to the British Parliament about sugar manufacture in the West Indies and the Caribbean during the 1840s.

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Family

He was born on 21 February 1818 at Teignmouth into into a high church landed gentry family that had a history of military service. [1] He was a son of Colonel Thomas Moody, CRE WI, ADC, Kt. [2] [3] [4] by Martha Clement (1784 - 1868), who was the daughter of the Napoleonic Wars veteran and Barbados landowner Richard Clement (1754 – 1829) [5] [6] and the aunt of Belgravia cricketers Reynold Clement and Richard Clement. [7] His father's English residences were 23 Bolton Street, Mayfair [8] [9] [10] [11] and 13 Curzon Street, Mayfair. [10]

His paternal grandmother was Barbara Blamire of Cumberland, a cousin of William Blamire MP High Sheriff of Cumberland and of the poet Susanna Blamire. His paternal cousin was the high church clergyman Clement Moody, Vicar of Newcastle. [3] [12]

His brothers included Major Thomas Moody (1809 - 1839); [13] Major-General Richard Clement Moody (1813 – 1887) (who was the first British Governor of the Falkland Islands, and the founder of British Columbia); [3] [14] [15] The Rev. James Leith Moody (1816 -1896) [15] [3] [14] (Chaplain to the Royal Navy in China, and to the British Army in the Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Malta and Crimea); [16] and Colonel Hampden Clement Blamire Moody CB (1821 - 1869) [3] [14] (Commander of the Royal Engineers in China [17] [18] during the Second Opium War and the Taiping Rebellion).

He was named after Shute Barrington, Bishop of Durham, who was a friend of his father. [19]

Arms of Shute Barrington Moody (1818 - 1851), shown over the name of his son Commander Thomas Barrington Moody (b. 1848), Royal Navy. Arms of Commander Thomas Barrington Moody (b. 1848), Royal Navy.png
Arms of Shute Barrington Moody (1818 - 1851), shown over the name of his son Commander Thomas Barrington Moody (b. 1848), Royal Navy.

Life

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Moody was educated at Eton College

He was educated at Eton College, [20] [19] and subsequently studied engineering in Manchester and sugar-refinement in London. [21]

He resided at Burton Street (now South Eaton Place), Eaton Square, Belgravia, in 1843, when he was elected as a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, [22] [21] and also owned property at No. 34, Fenchurch Street, London, and in Georgetown, Demerara, British Guiana.

He from 1843 investigated sugar-manufacture [21] in Demerara, and Barbados, and St. Kitts, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and St. Croix, and Louisiana, and Cuba, for which he reported to Parliament in 1847 and in 1848. [23] [24] [25]

He married Sarah Blackburne, [26] on either 19 January 1847 or 11 March 1847, [27] at St. Michael's Church, Chester Square. [28] Their son Thomas Barrington Moody (b. 29 March 1848: bapt. 5 May 1848 at St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate, London) was an artist and a Commander of the Royal Navy who served on HMS Boxer (1868) from 1871 to 1875, [29] and on HMS Egeria (1873) from 1873 to 1881. [26] Thomas Barrington Moody's journal of his travels in Asia is held by the University of New South Wales, Canberra. [26]

His son Commander Thomas Barrington Moody married Mary Ellen Dewrance and had one daughter, Joan Barrington Moody (b. 26 Feb 1889, Blackheath, d. 4 May 1956, Nanyuki), who married, on 14 December 1914, Lieutenant-Colonel Allen Holford-Walker MC (1890 - 1949) of the 2nd battalion of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, who was involved in the first ever tank battle during June 1916, with whom she had three children. [30] [31]

Shute Barrington Moody died on 2 June 1851, in Australia, and is buried at the Cemetery of St. Matthew's Church, Kensington Road, Marryatville, Adelaide, South Australia. [2]

References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. 1 2 Headstone of Shute Barrington Moody, St. Matthew's Church, Kensington Road, Marryatville, Adelaide, South Australia
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Legacies of British Slave-Ownership: Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Moody: Profile and Legacies Summary". University College London. Retrieved 6 June 2016.
  4. ↑ "Lieut. [Col.] Thomas Moody to Sir Robert Wilmot Horton, 16 May 1833, Archive Reference/Library Class No. D3155/C/6907, Wilmot-Horton family Correspondence, Derbyshire Record Office" . Retrieved 3 November 2016.
  5. ↑ "Richard Clement: Profile and Legacies Summary, Legacies of British Slave Ownership, UCL". University College London. 2019.
  6. ↑ Tatham, David. "Moody, Richard Clement". Dictionary of Falklands Biography.
  7. ↑ "Hampden Clement: Profile and Legacies Summary, Legacies of British Slave Ownership, UCL". University College London. 2019.
  8. ↑ Incorporated Society for the Conversion and Religious Instruction and Education of the Negro Slaves in the British West India Islands (1828). "Report of the Incorporated Society for the Conversion and Religious Instruction and Education of the Negro Slaves in the British West India Islands for the Year 1828". R. Gilbert. p. 236.
  9. ↑ Incorporated Society for the Conversion and Religious Instruction and Education of the Negro Slaves in the British West India Islands (1829). "Report of the Incorporated Society for the Conversion and Religious Instruction and Education of the Negro Slaves in the British West India Islands for the Year 1829". William Clowes, London. p. 88.
  10. 1 2 Eliza Boyle & Son (1829). "Boyle's Fashionable Court and Country Guide, January 1829". Eliza Boyle & Son, 284 Regent Street, London. p. 436.
  11. ↑ Thomas Moody (1779 - 1849) (1828). "Letter of Thomas Moody, late Commissioner for inquiring into the State of Captured Negroes, 7 July 1828, in Papers Relating to the Slave Trade, of the Session 29 January - 28 July 1828, Vol. XXVI". House of Commons.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  12. ↑ Foster, Joseph (1888–1891). "Moody, Clement"  . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886 . Oxford: James Parker – via Wikisource.
  13. ↑ The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume XII, by Sylvanus Urban, July to December 1839, p.214
  14. 1 2 3 Vetch1894 , p. 332
  15. 1 2 Tatham, David. "Moody, James Leith". Dictionary of Falklands Biography.
  16. ↑ 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.
  17. ↑ 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.
  18. ↑ Meehan, John D. Chasing the Dragon in Shanghai: Canada's Early Relations with China, 1858-1952. p. 17.
  19. 1 2 "Correspondence with Major Moody, of Barrington, Shute (1734 - 1826), Bishop of Durham".
  20. ↑ Stapleton, H.E.C. (1884). "Year 1829". The Eton College School Lists from 1791 to 1877, with Notes and Index. Simpkin, Marshall, and Company, London. p. 146.
  21. 1 2 3 Newton, W. (1844). Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences. p. 293.
  22. ↑ "Grace's Guide To British Industrial History: Shute Barrington Moody".
  23. ↑ "Parliamentary Papers, Volume 23, Part 4". H.M. Stationery Office. 1848.
  24. ↑ Scoffern, John (1849). The Manufacture of Sugar in the Colonies and at Home: Chemically Considered. Longman, Brown, Greenand Longmans.
  25. ↑ Newton, W. (1844). Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences. p. 293.
  26. 1 2 3 "Journal of Thomas Barrington Moody" (PDF). UNSW Canberra. 2017.
  27. ↑ The Liverpool Mercury, 19 March 1847, Marriages and Engagements
  28. ↑ "Entry for Blackburne, Sarah, British Guiana Colonists Index B, British Guiana Colonists" . Retrieved 3 November 2016.
  29. ↑ Fifteenth Report of the Geographic Board of Canada. J. de Labroquerie Tache, Ottawa. 1918. p. 177.
  30. ↑ "Entry for HOLFORD-WALKER, Allen MC (Lieut.-Col.) in Europeans in East Africa".
  31. ↑ "Major Allen Holford-Walker | Soldiers' Stories". National Army Museum, London. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
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