Ludlow Murcott Moody

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(1 November 1892 in

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– 19 November 1981, Kingston), a qualified doctor, was the son of Charles Ernest Moody, and, like his brother

Harold Moody Harold Arundel MoodyDavid A. Vaughan London: Independent Press, 1950. (8 October 1882 – 24 April 1947) was a Jamaican-born physician who emigrated to the United Kingdom, where he campaigned against racial prejudice and established the League o ...

also studied medicine in London at

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, winning the Warneford scholarship, the Huxley Prize for physiology, the Warneford Prize and the Todd Prize for Clinical Medicine. Another brother was the sculptor

Ronald Moody Ronald Moody (12 August 1900 – 6 February 1984) was a Jamaican-born sculptor, specialising in wood carvings. His work features in collections including the National Portrait Gallery and Tate Britain in London, as well as the National Gallery ...

. Returning to Jamaica, Ludlow Moody worked as government bacteriologist (1920–25), before setting up private practice in Kingston. During this period he was a

justice of the peace A justice of the peace (JP) is a judicial officer of a lower or ''puisne'' court, elected or appointed by means of a commission ( letters patent) to keep the peace. In past centuries the term commissioner of the peace was often used with the sa ...

, a member of Jamaica Public Services Commission and served as

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of Kingston from 1961 to 1963. He was awarded an honorary doctorate in laws from the

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. He was married twice: first to Vera Holme Manley (sister of Jamaican prime minister Norman Washington Manley), with whom he had one daughter, Pamela Margaret Moody, and later to Margaret Foster Smith. He was an Old Boy and former chairman of the Wolmer's Schools. He was appointed a

in 1966 for Public Service.Reported in ''Royal Society of Medicine News'' Vol. 59, October 1966 listing Birthday Honours.

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''BMJ'' Obituary 1982.
1892 births 1981 deaths People from Kingston, Jamaica Alumni of King's College London Jamaican bacteriologists Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Jamaican justices of the peace Jamaican expatriates in the United Kingdom {{med-bio-stub