Thomas Pearson Moody left Wales in 1863,[1] shortly after the deadly Gethin Pit Disaster; Thomas Pearson Moody worked at the Gethin Pit, and his father was charged with manslaughter in the following inquest.[3] He became general manager, clerk, and surveyor of the colliery at Waratah, New South Wales, Australia;[4] he left that position in 1869.[5] Next he was superintendent of a sheep station at Darling Downs, Queensland. In 1875, he was named manager and engineer of the Australasian Coal Company.[6] He was also first chairman of the New Castle Australasian Steamship Company. Thomas Pearson Moody moved to New Zealand in 1878, to run the Bay of Islands Coal Company, which helped to open the Hikurangi coal fields in New Zealand. He retired from his work at Hikurangi in 1908.[7]
He was a member of the British Institute of Mining Engineers, the South Wales Institute of Mining Engineers,[8] the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers,[9] and the British Geographical Society, among many other professional associations.[10]