Colonel Richard Stanley Hawks Moody, CB (23 October 1854 – 10 March 1930) was a distinguished British Army officer, and historian, and Military Knight of Windsor.

Moody was born in Strada Reale, Valletta, Malta, on 23 October 1854, into a High Church[1] merchant family, with a history of military service.

[22][23][24] Moody spent his infancy in British Columbia, of which his father was founder and first Lieutenant-Governor,[6][7][3] and is mentioned in the letters that were written by his mother, Mary Hawks, to England.

[32] Between 1895 and 1897, Moody served in the Chitral Expedition, in which he was part of General William Forbes Gatacre's flying column.

[36] He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the South Africa honours list, which was published on 26 June 1902,[37] and he received both the Queen's and King's medals with 5 clasps.

[40] Moody subsequent to the outbreak of World War I in 1914 rejoined active service and raised[40] the 7th Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers,[8] He served also as Colonel of 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers[8] and, during 1915, as Commandant of a School of Instruction for Officers at Dover.

[44][45] Moody was appointed an honorary Colonel of the Buffs (East Kent Regiment) and a Military Knight of Windsor in 1919.

He is buried at All Saints' Churchyard in Monkland, Herefordshire, where at Plot 62 there is a memorial to him, and to his sister, Gertrude, and to his son, Thomas Lewis Vyvian Moody.