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Henry Moody, 1st Baronet (c.1582 - 23 April 1629)

Baron and English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1625 and 1629. Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Henry_Moody,_1st_Baronet Relationships: Henry Moody was a father of Henry Moody (1607-c. 1661)

Deborah Moody (fl. 1607-1636-) was a wife of Henry Moody
Linked print sources: as Mentions or references - The Travels of Peter Mundy, in Europe and Asia, 1608-1667.
as Subject of/in a document - Complete Baronetage.
References in Documents:
Peter Mundy's description of the Tradescants' Ark in his travel diary (1634) [8]Sir Henry Moody of Garsdon, Wilts, and Baronet, succeeded his father (cr. 1622) in 1629. He emigrated to Massachusetts with his mother, Lady Deborah Moody, a nonconformist, in 1636. Their estate was sequestrated in 1646 and Sir Henry died in Virginia in 1661. See The Complete Baronetage, I. 191. I have found no other record of Sir Henry Moody's scientific tastes or his "divers conceipts."