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Colonel Richard Clement Moody

A black and white bust portrait of a bearded Colonel Richard Clement Moody wearing a military jacket.

 

Courtesy of the New Westminster Public Library, #1400.

 

Colonel Richard Clement Moody attended the Royal Military Academy before enlisting in the Royal Engineers, and was later appointed Governor of the Falkland Islands from 1841 to 1849. He steadily rose in the ranks before gaining command of the Columbia Detachment, as well as acting as the Chief Commissioner of Land and Works in British Columbia.