Dr Harold Arundel Moody
(8 October 1882 – 24 April 1947)

 Harold Arundel Moody was a doctor from Jamaica who moved to the UK. He fought against racism and set up the League of Coloured Peoples in 1931 with help from the Quakers.

Moody was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1882. His father was a pharmacist. He finished school at Wolmer's Schools and went to the UK in 1904 to study medicine at King's College London. He graduated top of his class in 1910 but couldn’t get a job because of racial prejudice. He opened his own clinic in Peckham, London, in 1913.

In 1931, Moody started the League of Coloured Peoples to promote racial equality. Notable early members were C. L. R. James, Jomo Kenyatta, Una Marson, and Paul Robeson.

Moody fought against racism in the armed forces and helped end the unfair Coloured Seamen's Act of 1925. This law hurt many black and Asian British sailors. In 1933, he joined the Coloured Men's Institute, a support centre for sailors, set up by Kamal Chunchie.

Moody was a committed Christian. He was active in the Congregational Union and became chair of the Colonial Missionary Society in 1921. In 1936, he became president of the Christian Endeavour Union.

Moody became a well-respected doctor in Peckham. During World War II, he helped organise the community and was the first doctor to respond after a bombing in south London in 1944, saving many lives. Near the end of his life, Moody toured North America as a speaker. He died at home in Peckham in 1947, aged 64, after catching influenza.