Sir Henry Moody, 1st Baronet

Sir Henry Moody, 1st Baronet (c. 1582 – 23 April 1629) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1625 and 1629.

Ancestry

Moody’s family had moved from Worcestershire to Malmesbury, where they leased property and pastureland from Malmesbury Abbey, by the end of the 15th century.[1] The family came to prominence amongst the gentry of Wiltshire subsequent to their acquisition, by royal grant,[2] of several of the Abbey's estates, including Garsdon manor, subsequent to the Dissolution of the Monasteries.[1] The Moody family acquired the Whitchurch and Cleverton manors, both near Malmesbury, and extensive acreage elsewhere, by 1544.[1]

Sir Henry was the great-grandson of Edmund Moody MP,[2] who had been granted a coat of arms, in 1540, for saving the life of Henry VIII in 1525.[3][4][5][6][7] Sir Henry had a record of the descent of the family that began with an ancestor five generations previous to Edmund (b.1495).[1] Sir Henry was the son of Richard Moody (d.1612), and the grandson of Richard Moody (d.1550).[2] Sir Henry's mother was Christiana Barwick, daughter of John Barwick, of Wilcot, Wiltshire.[1]

Career

He was knighted at Whitehall on 18 March 1606. From 1618 to 1619, he was Sheriff of Wiltshire. He was created baronet on 11 March 1622. In 1625, he was elected Member of Parliament for Malmesbury. He was re-elected MP for Malmesbury in 1626 and 1628 and sat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years.[8]

Moody died at Garesdon about a month after the dissolution of parliament, at the age of about 46.[8]

Moody married on 20 January 1606 Deborah Dunch, daughter of Walter Dunch of Avebury, Wiltshire and his wife Deborah Pilkington, daughter of James Pilkington, Bishop of Durham. She was a nonconformist and after his death, emigrated to Massachusetts in 1636. In 1643 she moved to the Dutch settlement in Long Island, where she died at Gravensonde between December 1654 and May 1659.[8]

The 1st Baronet's son, also Henry, who was a cavalier during the English Civil War, inherited the baronetcy.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "MOODY, Sir Henry, 1st Bt. (c.1582-1629), of Garsdon, Wilts., History of Parliament Online".
  2. 1 2 3 Baggs, A.P.; Freeman, Jane; Stevenson, Janet H (1991). Crowley, D.A., ed. "Victoria County History: Wiltshire: Vol 14, pp89-95: Garsdon". British History Online. University of London. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
  3. ↑ Weir, Alison (2002). Henry VIII: The King and his Court. Ballantine Books, New York. p. 247.
  4. ↑ Hall, Edward (1498–1547 (1542). King Henry VIII. London. p. 38.
  5. ↑ Gibbons, John (1682). Prince-Protecting Providences; or, A collection of some historical passages: relating how several princes and personages (born for great actions) have had miraculous preservations : made publick upon occasion of the late memorable (and miraculous) deliverance of His Royal Highness, James Duke of York. London. p. 4.
  6. ↑ Hine, Reginald L. (1927). The History of Hitchin, Vols I and II. Unwin Brothers Ltd., Gresham Press, Great Britain. p. Vol. I, p.140; Vol. II, p.243.
  7. ↑ James, G.P.R. Darnley (1836). "12". Field of the Cloth of Gold. Harper Brothers, New York. p. 14.
  8. 1 2 3 George Edward Cokayne Complete Baronetage, Volume 1 1900
Parliament of England
Preceded by
Sir Edward Wardour
Thomas Hatton		 Member of Parliament for Malmesbury
1625–1629
With: Sir Edward Wardour 1625
Sir William Croft 1626–1629		 Succeeded by
Parliament suspended until 1640
Baronetage of England
New creation Baronet
(of Garesdon)
1622–1629		 Succeeded by
Sir Henry Moody, 2nd Baronet
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