Sir Henry Moody, 1st Baronet

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

Ancestry

Sir Henry was the eldest son of Richard Moody (d. 1612), and the grandson of royal footman Edmund Moody who had been granted a coat-of-arms for saving the life of Henry VIII on a hunt.

The Moody family came to prominence amongst the landed gentry of Wiltshire by to their acquisition, by royal grant, of several of the Abbey's estates, including Garsdon manor, subsequent to the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

Moody died at Garsdon, on 23 April 1629, about a month after the dissolution of Parliament, at the age of about 46. In reality the 2nd baronet had at least one son, Captain John Moody (d. 1673), However, none of the 2nd baronet's sons claimed the baronetcy, which became extinct on the 2nd baronet's death.