Philip Moore, Baron Moore of Wolvercote

The Right Honourable The Lord Moore of Wolvercote GCB GCVO CMG QSO PC
Private Secretary to the Sovereign
In office 1977–1986
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Preceded by	The Rt. Hon. Sir Martin Charteris
Succeeded by	The Rt. Hon. Sir William Heseltine
Personal details
Born	6 April 1921(1921-04-06)
Died	7 April 2009(2009-04-07) (aged 88)
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Brasenose College, Oxford

Philip Brian Cecil Moore, Baron Moore of Wolvercote, GCB, GCVO, CMG, QSO, PC (6 April 1921 – 7 April 2009) was educated at the Dragon School, Cheltenham College and Brasenose College, Oxford and fought as a Bomber during World War II.

Moore was then Private Secretary from 1957 to 1958, to the 10th Earl of Selkirk in the latter's capacity as First Lord of the Admiralty. He was Deputy British High Commissioner (and acting HC) in Singapore, 1963–65, and back in the UK, Chief of Public Relations of the Ministry of Defence 1965-66. He was then Assistant Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II from 1966 to 1972, then as Deputy until 1977 and as Private Secretary to the Sovereign until 1986. On his retirement in 1986, he was created Baron Moore of Wolvercote, of Wolvercote in the City of Oxford and he lived in a grace and favour apartment in Hampton Court Palace.

His former son-in-law was the singer Peter Gabriel.

External links

• Lord Moore of Wolvercote - Daily Telegraph obituary

Court offices
Preceded by Sir Martin Charteris	Private Secretary to the Sovereign 1977–1986	Succeeded by Sir William Heseltine