John Moore (civil servant)

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Sir John Michael Moore, KCVO, CB, DSC (2 April 1921 – 20 June 2016) was a British civil servant. He studied at Selwyn College, Cambridge, and served in the Royal Navy during World War II. He joined the civil service in 1946 and worked at the Ministry of Transport, where he was Joint Principal Private Secretary to the Minister (1956–1959), then Assistant Secretary (1959–1966) and later Under-Secretary. He became Under-Secretary, and four years later moved to the Department of the Environment, before joining the Civil Service Department in 1972 as a Deputy Secretary. From 1978 to 1983 he was the Second Crown Estate Commissioner. He was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1974 and a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1983.