Philip Moore, Baron Moore of Wolvercote

Philip Brian Cecil Moore, Baron Moore of Wolvercote, GCB, GCVO, CMG, QSO, PC (6 April 1921 – 7 April 2009) was Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom from 1977 to 1986.

The Right Honourable The Lord Moore of Wolvercote GCB GCVO CMG QSO PC
Private Secretary to the Sovereign
In office 12 November 1977 – 1 April 1986
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Preceded by	Sir Martin Charteris
Succeeded by	Sir William Heseltine
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
In office 22 July 1986 – 7 April 2009 Life Peerage
Personal details
Born	Philip Brian Cecil Moore (1921-04-06)6 April 1921
Died	7 April 2009(2009-04-07) (aged 88)
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Brasenose College, Oxford

He was educated at the Dragon School, Cheltenham College, then Brasenose College, Oxford, and served in RAF Bomber Command during World War II. He played one match for the England international rugby union team, against Wales in the 1951 Five Nations Championship.^[1][2]

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.^[3] 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^[4] and he lived in a grace and favour apartment in Hampton Court Palace. He received the honour of being made a Permanent Lord in Waiting.^[5][6]

His former son-in-law is the singer Peter Gabriel and singer Melanie Gabriel his granddaughter. His wife Joanna died in 2011 aged 86.

Coat of arms of Philip Moore, Baron Moore of Wolvercote

Crest A moorcock Proper gorged with a crown Or holding in its dexter claw a quill pen Proper. Escutcheon Gules on a fess between two lions passant guardant Or three moorcocks Sable crested Gules. Supporters Dexter a wolf Proper crowned Or gorged with a collar Argent fimbriated Or thereon roses Gules barbed and seeded Proper and cross crosslets Sable; sinister a stag Proper attired and unguled Or crowned also Or gorged with a collar Argent fimbriated Or thereon cross crosslets Sable and roses Gules barbed and seeded Proper therefrom a chain reflexed over the back ending in a ring Gold. Compartment A grassy mount growing therefrom on each side between a thistle and a shamrock both Proper a rose Gules stalk and leaves Vert barbed and seeded to the front thereof on the dexter side a rugby football and similarly on the sinister side a cricket ball Proper. Motto Moribus Et Consilio [7]

References

1. "ESPNscrum profile". ESPN scrum. Retrieved 17 August 2019.
2. Purser, Philip (5 May 2009). "Lord Moore of Wolvercote". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
3. Who's Who
4. "No. 50610". The London Gazette. 28 July 1986. p. 9909.
5. Tomlinson, Richard (20 December 1992). "They also serve, who only ush". Independent. Archived from the original on 26 May 2022.
6. [The Times, UK, 12 November 1977]
7. Debrett's Peerage. 2003. p. 1135.

External links

• "Obituary: Lord Moore of Wolvercote". The Daily Telegraph. London. 27 April 2009. ISSN 0307-1235. OCLC 49632006. Retrieved 22 December 2014.

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