Moyes, Patricia

Patricia Moyes was born Patricia Pakenham-Walsh in Dublin, Ireland. She was educated at Overstone School in Northampton 1934–39 and served in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) during the Second World War, achieving the rank of flight officer. After the war she was hired by Peter Ustinov as an assistant after which she was assistant editor of English Vogue between 1953 and 1958. She spent a large part of her life abroad: Switzerland 1958–62, the Netherlands 1962–72 (when her husband worked at the International Court of Justice in the Hague) and Washington D.C. 1972–77. She kept her first husband’s, the photographer John Moyes, name. They were married in 1951 and divorced in 1959. In 1962, she married a lawyer, John S. Haszard (who died in 1994). The couple moved to the British Virgin Islands in the late 1970s. Patricia Pakenham-Walsh died at home in Virgin Gorda in 2000.