James Newton Rodney Moore

General Sir (James Newton) Rodney Moore, GCVO, KCB, CBE, DSO (1905–1985) was a senior British Army officer.

Military career
Educated at Harrow School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Moore was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards in 1925. From 1942 to 1944 he was General Staff Officer 1 Guards Armoured Division. He was then Commanding Officer 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards, in North-West Europe. In 1945 he was promoted and became Commanding Officer 8th Brigade, in Germany and Palestine. From 1946 to 1947 he was Commanding Officer 1st Guards Brigade, also in Palestine.

Returning to the United Kingdom, from 1948 to 1950 Moore was Chief of Staff of London District, and then attended the Imperial Defence College.

From 1951 to 1953 he was Deputy Adjutant-General, British Army of the Rhine, Germany. Moore than undertook his first NATO posting, as Chief of Staff Allied Forces Northern Europe. Returning to the Middle East in 1955, Moore was General Officer Commanding 1st Division. He was then transferred, in the same year, to command the 10th Armoured Division.

Returning to London in 1957, he assumed the post of Major-General commanding the Household Brigade and General Officer Commanding London District. Another overseas posting in 1959 saw him serving as Chief of Armed Forces Staff, Malaya and Director of Border Operations, Malaya. His last active appointment was as the first Defence Services Secretary at the Ministry of Defence in London. He retired in 1966.

From 1965 to 1966 he was Aide-de-Camp General to the Queen. Moore spent his last years as Chief Steward of Hampton Court Palace.

He was also a Gentleman Usher to the Royal Household.