Sir Henry Moody, 1st Baronet

Who is Sir Henry Moody, 1st Baronet?

Sir Henry Moody, 1st Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1625 and 1629.

Moody was the son of Richard Moody, of Lee and Whitchurch-cum-Milborne and of Garesdon, Wiltshire and his wife Christiana Barwick, daughter of John Barwick, of Wilcot, Wiltshire. 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.

Moody died at Garesdon about a month after the dissolution of parliament at the age of about 46.

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 with her son 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.