Colonel Richard Stanley Hawks Moody

Colonel Richard Stanley Hawks-Moody CB
Born	23 October 1854 Strada Reale, Valetta, Malta
Died	10 March 1930
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Rank	Colonel
Commands held	7th Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers, Royal Pioneer Corps (Labour Corps), Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) (honorary)
Battles/wars	Anglo-Zulu War, Chitral Expedition, Second Boer War, World War I
Awards	Companion of the Order of the Bath Military Knight of Windsor

Colonel Richard Stanley Hawks-Moody, CB (23 October 1854 – 10 March 1930) was a distinguished officer of the British Army.

Hawks-Moody was born in Strada Reale, Valetta, Malta on 23 October 1854, the eldest son of Major General Richard Clement Moody, the first Governor of the Falkland Islands and founder and first Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia, and Mary Susannah Hawks of the Hawks industrial dynasty, daughter of merchant banker Joseph Hawks JP DL,Sheriff of Newcastle, and Mary Boyd of the Boyd merchant banking family. Mary Hawks's maternal uncles included Admiral Benedictus Marwood Kelly and industrialist Edward Fenwick Boyd. Hawks-Moody's paternal grandfather was Colonel Thomas Moody JP, Knight (Order of Military Merit).

Via his mother's descent from Agnes Chaytor he was a direct descendant of the ancient House of Clervaux, after whom his brother, Henry de Clervaux Moody, was named in line with family tradition and via whom he was a direct descendant of Edward III, the House of Plantagenet, and Charlemagne on multiple lines.

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