| Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
| The Lord Moore of Wolvercote | |
| Order: | Private Secretary to the Sovereign |
| Term Start: | 12 November 1977 |
| Term End: | 1 April 1986 |
| Predecessor: | Sir Martin Charteris |
| Successor: | Sir William Heseltine |
| Office3: | Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal |
| Term Start3: | 22 July 1986 |
| Term End3: | 7 April 2009 Life Peerage |
| Birth Name: | Philip Brian Cecil Moore |
| Birth Date: | 6 April 1921 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Alma Mater: | Brasenose College, Oxford |
Philip Brian Cecil Moore, Baron Moore of Wolvercote, (6 April 1921 - 7 April 2009) was Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom from 1977 to 1986.
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 international rugby union team, against 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 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.[4] [5]
His former son-in-law is the singer Peter Gabriel and singer Melanie Gabriel his granddaughter. His wife Joanna died in 2011 aged 86.
| Escutcheon: | Gules on a fess between two lions passant guardant Or three moorcocks Sable crested Gules. |
| Crest: | A moorcock Proper gorged with a crown Or holding in its dexter claw a quill pen Proper. |
| 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 [6] |