Edmund Mody

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Captain Edmund Mody (also spelled Moody, Moodye and Mondye) lived from 1495 to 28 May 1552. He was an English soldier and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dover. It is not certain if he is the same person as Edmund Moody, the royal footman who saved Henry VIII and was an ancestor of the Moody baronets.

In September 1534, Mody was made Captain of the Black Bulwark at Dover. He was granted the Bailiffship of Dover in July 1537 and became Bailiff in 1543 after the death of Thomas Vaughan. That same year he became a freeman of Dover and bought property in the Snargare and Werston wards. He was part of the Brotherhood of the Cinque Ports.

Mody is listed in Henry VIII’s posthumous Inventory as living in a bulwark at Dover Castle near the cliff. He was elected MP for Dover in 1545 and received an extra £20 annuity in 1546. He attended the coronation of Edward VI in 1547.

He married a woman named Margery, and they had at least one son, Christopher. He died on 28 May 1552. In his will, he asked to be buried in St. Mary’s, Dover, in a chancel where the aldermen sit, and left small gifts to the officers of Dover Castle. His ship, named the Christopher, along with his goods and leases, passed to his wife. The Bailiff of Dover position was filled by his deputy, Thomas Portway.