Hampden Clement Blamire Moody
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Colonel Hampden Clement Blamire Moody CB |
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| Born | 1821 Bedford Square, London |
| Died | 27 February 1869 Belfast, Ireland |
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 United Kingdom
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| Service/branch | Royal Engineers |
| Rank | Colonel |
| Commands held | China, Belfast. |
| Battles/wars | |
| Awards | Companion of the Order of the Bath |
| Memorials | Balmoral Cemetery, Belfast |
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Colonel Hampden Clement Blamire Moody, CB (1821–27 February 1869) was the Commander of the Royal Engineers in China at the height of the British Empire and throughout the Second Opium War and the Taiping Rebellion.
Hampden Clement Blamire was born in 1821 on 10 January at Bedford Square, London. He was the eighth of ten children of Colonel Thomas Moody, Knight JP, and Martha Clement (1764 - 1868), daughter of Richard Clement (1754 - 1829), a slave plantation owner of Barbados. His siblings included Major Thomas Moody (1809 - 1839); Major-General Richard Clement Moody (b.1813), the founder of British Columbia and first British Governor of the Falkland Islands; Reverend James Leith Moody (b.1816), Chaplain to Royal Navy in China and to the British Army in the Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Malta, and Crimea; and Shute Barrington Moody MICE (b. 1818), an expert on sugar cultivation in West Indies.
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