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Sir Peter Moores CBE, DL
Sir Peter Moores was born in Lancashire and educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, where he studied Italian and German. Whilst a student he worked at Glyndebourne as a behind-the-scenes administrator, before going to study at the Vienna Academy of Music for three years, where he produced the Austrian premiere of Benjamin Britten's The Rape of Lucretia. At the same time he was a production assistant with the Vienna State Opera , working with Viennese artists in Naples, Geneva and Rome.
In 1957 he joined his father's business, Littlewoods, becoming Vice-Chairman in 1976, Chairman from 1977 to 1980 and remaining a director until 1993. His public appointments include from 1981 to 1983 Governor of the BBC, Trustee of the Tate Gallery from 1978 until 1985 and from 1988 to 1992 a Director of Scottish Opera. He is also a member of the British Museum Society. He received the Gold Medal of the Italian Republic in 1974, an Honorary MA from Christ Church, Oxford, in 1975, and was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Northern College of Music in 1985.
In 1992 he was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant (DL) of Lancashire by HM Queen Elizabeth II. He was appointed a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in 1991 and received a Knighthood in the New Year's Honours List for 2003 in recognition of his charitable services to the arts. In July 2008 he received the Stauffer Medal, the highest award of Germany's Baden-Wurttemberg Province, and in October 2008 was made an Honorary Doctor of Letters at the University of the West Indies. In the same year, he received the ClassicFM Gramophone Special Achievement Award in recognition of his many initiatives in recording opera.
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