Dr Ludlow Murcott Moody, CBE, was born on 1 November 1892 and educated at Wolmer’s Boys’ School before reading medicine at King’s College, London (British Medical Journal, 16 January 1982). In 1919, the BMJ said, he became the first Jamaican to obtain the MRCP; he proceeded MD in 1920. After work in physiology and bacteriology at King’s he came home as government bacteriologist, holding that post until 1925, then entered general practice in Kingston.

He was president of the Jamaica branch of the British Medical Association, president of the Medical Council of Jamaica, a magistrate, and a member of the Public Service Commission. The same obituary said he was “always conscious of his debt to Wolmer’s School and served for 40 years on the board of trustees,” and that “his greatest contribution undoubtedly [was] the founding of a preparatory school.”

He was at the first meeting of the university college’s provisional council in 1944, on the college council from 1947 to 1955, and on the university hospital board from 1948 until 1977. He captained a Jamaican team at Bisley in 1938. He was made CBE in 1966. The Gleaner’s “This Day in Our Past” (1 March 2023) records that in 1961 he was sworn as Custos of Kingston at Wolmer’s Girls’ School. He died on 19 November 1981, aged 89. He was survived by his wife Margaret and their daughter Pamela, a doctor.

Sources

Sources: British Medical Journal, L. M. Moody, 16 January 1982; Jamaica Gleaner, This Day in Our Past, 1 March 2023.