Artist in oil, pencil and charcoal, and teacher, born in London. He studied at Battersea Polytechnic and at Royal College of Art under William Rothenstein. Became headmaster of Malvern School of Art, 1935–62, succeeded by his daughter, Catherine Olive Moody. Showed at RA, RP and RBSA and had a solo show at Goupil Gallery, 1939. Moody produced classical compositions and portraits. Harris Museum & Art Gallery in Preston, Bolton and Worcester Libraries and Worcester Cathedral hold examples. Lived in Malvern, Worcestershire. Moody was featured in The Last of the Classicists, which the Harris mounted in 1993. The theme was enlarged at Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery in 2003 with the installation Underpainting and the Painting Methods of V H Moody, stemming from researches made by a group including Moody’s daughter Catherine.