Charles Harry Moody [SEP] date of death
Charles Harry Moody
Dr Charles Harry Moody Hon. FRCO (22 March 1874 - 10 May 1965) was a composer and organist based in England.
Life.
He was born in Stourbridge, Worcestershire on 22 March 1874, the son of Charles Moody (1825 – 1893) and Lydia Glover (1829-1904)
He studied organ under T. Westlake Morgan at Bangor Cathedral.
He married Mary Grindall Brayton in 1899 in Wigan. The marriage produced:
- Barbara Gunhilda Moody (b. 1899)
d. 1989 (married Simon Monckton-Arundell, 9th Viscount Galway, with issue)
- Giles Henry Holland Fox-Strangways b. 7 May 1934, d. 2 Sep 1947 (age 13, accidental death)
- Charles Stephen Fox-Strangways b. 6 May 1938, d. 8 Jul 1958 (age 20, killed while on emergency military operations, Cyprus).
Harry died on 21 August 1964 at age 58, without surviving male issue. He was succeeded in the Earldom of Ilchester by Walter Angelo Fox-Strangways