Harold Moody
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Harold Arundel Moody was a physician
in London
who established the League of Coloured Peoples
in 1931 with the support of the Quakers.
Moody was born in Kingston
, Jamaica
in 1882, the son of a pharmacist. In 1904 he sailed to the United Kingdom
to study medicine at King's College London
.
In 1913 Moody married Olive Tranter a nurse with whom he worked at the Royal Eye Hospital.
Moody's brother Ludlow
also studied medicine in London and won the Huxley Prize for physiology at King's. Ludlow married Vera Manley and both returned to the Caribbean
. Charles Arundel Moody, Harold's son, became an officer in the British Army, rising to the rank of colonel
.
Moody is credited with overturning the Special Restriction Order (or Coloured Seamen's Act) of 1925, a discriminatory measure which sought to provide subsidies to merchant shipping employing only British nationals and required alien seamen (many of whom had served the United Kingdom during the First World War) to register with their local police. Many Black and Asian British nationals had no proof of identity and were made redundant.
Moody died in 1944 at the age of 67. He lived in a house in Peckham on Queens Road which now has a green plaque dedicated to him.
Physician
A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...
in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
who established the League of Coloured Peoples
League of Coloured Peoples
The League of Coloured People was a British civil rights organization. The league was founded in 1931 in London with the goal of racial equality around the world. Though the league's primary focus was black rights in Britain, it also was involved in other civil-rights issues, such as the...
in 1931 with the support of the Quakers.
Moody was born in Kingston
Kingston, Jamaica
Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island. It faces a natural harbour protected by the Palisadoes, a long sand spit which connects the town of Port Royal and the Norman Manley International Airport to the rest of the island...
, Jamaica
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...
in 1882, the son of a pharmacist. In 1904 he sailed to the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
to study medicine at King's College London
King's College London
King's College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. King's has a claim to being the third oldest university in England, having been founded by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington in 1829, and...
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In 1913 Moody married Olive Tranter a nurse with whom he worked at the Royal Eye Hospital.
Moody's brother Ludlow
Ludlow Moody
Ludlow Murcott Moody CBE a qualified doctor, was the son of Charles Ernest Moody, and, like his brother Harold Moody also studied medicine in London at King's College London Medical School, winning the Warneford scholarship, the Huxley Prize for physiology, the Warneford Prize and the Todd Prize...
also studied medicine in London and won the Huxley Prize for physiology at King's. Ludlow married Vera Manley and both returned to the Caribbean
Caribbean
The Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...
. Charles Arundel Moody, Harold's son, became an officer in the British Army, rising to the rank of colonel
Colonel
Colonel , abbreviated Col or COL, is a military rank of a senior commissioned officer. It or a corresponding rank exists in most armies and in many air forces; the naval equivalent rank is generally "Captain". It is also used in some police forces and other paramilitary rank structures...
.
Moody is credited with overturning the Special Restriction Order (or Coloured Seamen's Act) of 1925, a discriminatory measure which sought to provide subsidies to merchant shipping employing only British nationals and required alien seamen (many of whom had served the United Kingdom during the First World War) to register with their local police. Many Black and Asian British nationals had no proof of identity and were made redundant.
Moody died in 1944 at the age of 67. He lived in a house in Peckham on Queens Road which now has a green plaque dedicated to him.