Colonel Richard Stanley Hawks-Moody CB |
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Born | 23 October 1854 Strada Reale, Valetta, Malta |
Died | 10 March 1930 |
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Rank | Colonel |
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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) and his uncle was Colonel Hampden Clement Blamire Moody CB, Commander of the Royal Engineers in China during the Second Opium War and the Taiping Rebellion.