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Clement Moody was born in [[Arthuret|Arthuret, Longtown, Cumbria]],[{{cite web|url=https://calmview.northumberland.gov.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=EP+86%2F461%2F546|title=Northumberland Archives, Cathedral Church of St. Nicholas, Parish Records, Ref. No. EP 86/461/546|access-date=6 June 2016}}] in 1809 into a [[high church]] [[landed gentry]] family that had a history of military service.[{{cite journal|last1=Rupprecht|first1=Anita|date=September 2012|title='When he gets among his countrymen, they tell him that he is free': Slave Trade Abolition, Indentured Africans and a Royal Commission|journal=Slavery & Abolition|volume=33 |issue=3 |pages= 435–455|doi= 10.1080/0144039X.2012.668300|s2cid=144301729}}] He was the sixth son of the surgeon George Moody of [[Arthuret|Arthuret, Longtown, Cumbria]],[{{alox2|title=Moody, Clement}}] and later of Leeds, (d. 1844).[The Leeds Intelligencer, 04 January 1845, Deaths] His uncle was the [[Colonial Office]] expert [[Thomas Moody (geopolitician)|Colonel Thomas Moody, Kt.]][{{cite web|url=http://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/6650|title=Legacies of British Slave-Ownership: Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Moody: Profile and Legacies Summary|publisher=University College London|access-date=6 June 2016}}] through whom his cousins included [[Richard Clement Moody|Major-General Richard Clement Moody]], who was the founder of [[British Columbia]], and the clergyman [[James Leith Moody]]. |
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Clement Moody was born in [[Arthuret|Arthuret, Longtown, Cumbria]],[{{cite web|url=https://calmview.northumberland.gov.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=EP+86%2F461%2F546|title=Northumberland Archives, Cathedral Church of St. Nicholas, Parish Records, Ref. No. EP 86/461/546|access-date=6 June 2016}}] in 1809 into a [[high church]] [[landed gentry]] family that had a history of military service.[{{cite journal|last1=Rupprecht|first1=Anita|date=September 2012|title='When he gets among his countrymen, they tell him that he is free': Slave Trade Abolition, Indentured Africans and a Royal Commission|journal=Slavery & Abolition|volume=33 |issue=3 |pages= 435–455|doi= 10.1080/0144039X.2012.668300|s2cid=144301729}}] He was the sixth son of the surgeon George Moody of [[Arthuret|Arthuret, Longtown, Cumbria]],[{{alox2|title=Moody, Clement}}] and later of Leeds, (d. 1844).[The Leeds Intelligencer, 04 January 1845, Deaths] His uncle was the [[Colonial Office]] expert [[Thomas Moody (geopolitician)|Colonel Thomas Moody, Kt.]][{{cite web|url=http://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/6650|title=Legacies of British Slave-Ownership: Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Moody: Profile and Legacies Summary|publisher=University College London|access-date=6 June 2016}}] through whom his cousins included [[Richard Clement Moody|Major-General Richard Clement Moody]], who was the founder of [[British Columbia]], and the clergyman [[James Leith Moody]]. |
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His sister Jane married Lewis Alexander of Hopwood Hall, [[Halifax, West Yorkshire]],[''The Carlisle Journal'', 8 November 1834, p. 3] who was the father of the barrister [[Robert Alexander (philanthropist)|Robert Alexander FRS FSA]].[{{cite web|title=''The Gentleman's Magazine'', Volume II, 1834, July to December, Sylvanus Urban, published by William Pickering, London, pp.641|year=1731 |url=https://archive.org/details/gentlemansmagaz00urbagoog/page/n644}}] His sister was ladies' school founder Anne Moody, of Warwick Place, Leeds, who married David Latimer[''The Leeds Mercury'', 12 January 1839, p. 1] of Berwickstown, Kirklinton.[''The Carlisle Journal'', 17 December 1858, p.8] Their granddaughter married Colonel Thomas Moody's grandson [[Richard Stanley Hawks Moody|Colonel Richard Stanley Hawks Moody]].[''The York Herald'', 7 November 1881, p. 5] |
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His sister Jane married Lewis Alexander of Hopwood Hall, [[Halifax, West Yorkshire]],[''The Carlisle Journal'', 8 November 1834, p. 3] who was the father of the barrister [[Robert Alexander (philanthropist)|Robert Alexander FRS FSA]].[{{cite web|title=''The Gentleman's Magazine'', Volume II, 1834, July to December, Sylvanus Urban, published by William Pickering, London, pp.641|year=1731 |url=https://archive.org/details/gentlemansmagaz00urbagoog/page/n644}}] Another of his sisters was ladies' school founder Anne Moody, of Warwick Place, Leeds, who married David Latimer[''The Leeds Mercury'', 12 January 1839, p. 1] of Berwickstown, Kirklinton,[''The Carlisle Journal'', 17 December 1858, p.8] whose granddaughter married Colonel Thomas Moody's grandson [[Richard Stanley Hawks Moody|Colonel Richard Stanley Hawks Moody]].[''The York Herald'', 7 November 1881, p. 5] |