Sir Henry Moody, 2nd Baronet

Sir Henry Moody, 2nd Baronet (September 1661) was an English cavalier and emigrant to North America.

Ancestry Sir Henry was the eldest son of Wiltshire landowner Sir Henry Moody, 1st Baronet. He was the grandson of Richard Moody (d. 1612), of Whitechurch-cum-Melbourne, Wiltshire, and of Westfields, Lea, Wiltshire, and the great-grandson of royal footman Edmund Moody who had been granted a coat-of-arms for saving the life of Henry VIII on a hunt.

His mother was Deborah, Lady Moody, who was the daughter of Walter Dunch of Avebury, Wiltshire, and his wife Deborah Pilkington, who was the daughter of James Pilkington, Bishop of Durham. He had one sister and one illegitimate sibling whose mother was a woman called Margaret Harvard.

Career He matriculated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, in 1621, was admitted to Gray's Inn in 1632, and received the degree of DCL in 1642. His relation Henry Moody, a London merchant who was listed as a member of the landed gentry in 1673, married Hannah Washington, who was the daughter of the merchant Robert Washington (b. 1616, Adwick le Street, Yorkshire, d. 1674, Rotterdam) of Austhorpe Hall, Leeds, who descended from Sir John Washington (d. 1331) (who was the brother of Sir Robert Washington (d. 1324) who was the progenitor of the branch of the Washington family that resided at Sulgrave Manor from whom the founder of the United States was descended).

G. E. Cokayne also incorrectly states that the 2nd baronet died without issue. None of the 2nd baronet's sons claimed the baronetcy, and one to Virginia, on which he died, in September 1661, at the house of Colonel Morritson, whilst indebted to various creditors.