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Richard Clement Moody FICE FRGS RIBA Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Military Merit of France (13 February 1813 – 31 March 1887) was a British governor, engineer, architect and soldier. He is best known for being the founder and the first Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia, being the Commanding Executive Officer of Malta during the Crimean War and being the first British Governor of the Falkland Islands.

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  • El mayor general Richard Clement Moody (Bridgetown, Barbados, 13 de febrero de 1813; Bournemouth, Inglaterra, 31 de marzo de 1887) fue un teniente-gobernador, y más tarde el primer gobernador británico de las Islas Malvinas, y el primer teniente gobernador de la Colonia de la Columbia Británica. Mientras servía en virtud de estos cargos, se seleccionaron los sitios de las nuevas capitales, Puerto Stanley y New Westminster, respectivamente. Moody también era un coronel de los Ingenieros Reales, y era el comandante del Destacamento de Columbia, la fuerza que fue llevada para establecer el orden británico durante la Fiebre del oro del cañón del Fraser. (es)
  • Richard Clement Moody FICE FRGS RIBA Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Military Merit of France (13 February 1813 – 31 March 1887) was a British governor, engineer, architect and soldier. He is best known for being the founder and the first Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia, being the Commanding Executive Officer of Malta during the Crimean War and being the first British Governor of the Falkland Islands. Moody, who is considered to be the founding father of British Columbia, founded the Colony of British Columbia, after he was selected to 'found a second England on the shores of the Pacific' by Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, who desired to send to the nascent colony 'representatives of the best of British culture' who had 'courtesy, high breeding, and urbane knowledge of the world'. The British Government considered Moody to be the definitive 'English gentleman and British Officer'. Moody's official title was Commander of the Royal Engineers, Columbia Detachment, Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for British Columbia, and first Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia. Moody founded the capital of British Columbia, New Westminster, and has been described as 'the real father of New Westminster'. He also established the Cariboo Road and Stanley Park, and named Burnaby Lake after his secretary Robert Burnaby and Port Coquitlam's 400-foot 'Mary Hill' after his wife, Mary Hawks. He also designed the first Coat of Arms of British Columbia. Port Moody in British Columbia, and Moody Park and Moody Square in New Westminster, are named after him. He was also the first Governor of the Falkland Islands, and founded their settlements, including their capital Port Stanley. Moody Brook in the Falkland Islands is named after him. Moody Point in Antarctica is also named after him. Moody was a polymath who excelled in engineering, and in architecture, and in music, and in science. He planned the restoration of Edinburgh Castle using musical chords, for which he was summoned to Windsor Castle for commendation by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. He has been described as 'a visionary in a plain land' and 'a man who could conceive of Edinburgh Castle in terms of a musical score'. (en)
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  • 1813-02-13 (xsd:date)
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  • 1887-03-31 (xsd:date)
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  • Richard Clement Moody, 1859 (en)
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  • *Commander-in-Chief, Falkland Islands *Commanding Royal Engineer, Newcastle-upon-Tyne *Executive Officer of the Crown Colony of Malta *Commanding Royal Engineer, Scotland *Royal Engineers, Columbia Detachment *Commanding Royal Engineer, Chatham Dockyard (en)
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  • 1887-03-31 (xsd:date)
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  • ; Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Military Merit of France (en)
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  • Richard Clement Moody (en)
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  • Governor; Engineer; Architect; Soldier. (en)
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  • Colonel Thomas Moody, Kt.; Martha Clement (en)
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  • None (en)
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  • *James Leith Moody , Chaplain to Royal Navy and to British Army *Colonel Hampden Clement Blamire Moody CB , Commander of the Royal Engineers in China *Richard Clement (1832 - 1873), cricketer *Reynold Clement , cricketer (en)
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  • Government House, New Westminster (en)
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  • Mary Hawks . Married 1852. (en)
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  • July 1848 (en)
  • July 1863 (en)
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  • 1858-12-25 (xsd:date)
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  • El mayor general Richard Clement Moody (Bridgetown, Barbados, 13 de febrero de 1813; Bournemouth, Inglaterra, 31 de marzo de 1887) fue un teniente-gobernador, y más tarde el primer gobernador británico de las Islas Malvinas, y el primer teniente gobernador de la Colonia de la Columbia Británica. Mientras servía en virtud de estos cargos, se seleccionaron los sitios de las nuevas capitales, Puerto Stanley y New Westminster, respectivamente. Moody también era un coronel de los Ingenieros Reales, y era el comandante del Destacamento de Columbia, la fuerza que fue llevada para establecer el orden británico durante la Fiebre del oro del cañón del Fraser. (es)
  • Richard Clement Moody FICE FRGS RIBA Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Military Merit of France (13 February 1813 – 31 March 1887) was a British governor, engineer, architect and soldier. He is best known for being the founder and the first Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia, being the Commanding Executive Officer of Malta during the Crimean War and being the first British Governor of the Falkland Islands. (en)
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