The Viscount Templewood | |
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| Secretary of State for Air | |
| In office 3 April 1940 – 10 May 1940 | |
| Prime Minister | Neville Chamberlain |
| Preceded by | Kingsley Wood |
| Succeeded by | Archibald Sinclair |
| In office 6 December 1924 – 4 June 1929 | |
| Prime Minister | Stanley Baldwin |
| Preceded by | The Lord Thomson |
| Succeeded by | The Lord Thomson |
| In office 31 October 1922 – 22 January 1924 | |
| Prime Minister | Stanley Baldwin |
| Preceded by | Frederick Guest |
| Succeeded by | The Lord Thomson |
| Lord Privy Seal | |
| In office 3 September 1939 – 3 April 1940 | |
| Prime Minister | Neville Chamberlain |
| Preceded by | Sir John Anderson |
| Succeeded by | Kingsley Wood |
| Home Secretary | |
| In office 28 May 1937 – 3 September 1939 | |
| Prime Minister | Stanley Baldwin Neville Chamberlain |
| Preceded by | Sir John Simon |
| Succeeded by | Sir John Anderson |
| Foreign Secretary | |
| In office 7 June 1935 – 18 December 1935 | |
| Prime Minister | Stanley Baldwin |
| Preceded by | Sir John Simon |
| Succeeded by | Anthony Eden |
| Secretary of State for India | |
| In office 25 August 1931 – 7 June 1935 | |
| Prime Minister | Ramsay MacDonald |
| Preceded by | The Viscount Peel |
| Succeeded by | The Marquess of Zetland |
| Member of the House of Lords | |
| Hereditary peerage 14 July 1944 – 7 May 1959 | |
| Member of Parliament for Chelsea | |
| In office 15 January 1910 – 14 July 1944 | |
| Preceded by | Emslie Horniman |
| Succeeded by | William Sidney |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Samuel John Gurney Hoare 24 February 1880 London, England |
| Died | 7 May 1959 (aged 79) London, England |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse | Lady Maud Lygon |
| Parent | Sir Samuel Hoare, 1st Baronet (father) |
| Alma mater | New College, Oxford |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  United Kingdom |
| Branch/service |  British Army |
| Years of service | 1916–1918 |
| Rank | Lieutenant colonel |
| Unit | Norfolk Yeomanry Royal Army Service Corps |
| Battles/wars | World War I |
Samuel John Gurney Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood, GCSI, GBE, CMG, PC, JP (24 February 1880 – 7 May 1959), more commonly known as Sir Samuel Hoare, was a senior British Conservative politician who served in various Cabinet posts in the Conservative and National governments of the 1920s and 1930s.[1]
Hoare was Secretary of State for Air during most of the 1920s. As Secretary of State for India in the early 1930s, he authored the Government of India Act 1935, which granted self-government at a provincial level to India. He was most famous for serving as Foreign Secretary in 1935, when he authored the Hoare–Laval Pact with French Prime Minister Pierre Laval. This partially recognised the Italian conquest of Abyssinia (modern Ethiopia) and Hoare was forced to resign by the ensuing public outcry. In 1936 he returned to the Cabinet as First Lord of the Admiralty, then served as Home Secretary from 1937 to 1939 and was again briefly Secretary of State for Air in 1940. He was seen as a leading "appeaser" and his removal from office (along with that of Sir John Simon and the removal of Neville Chamberlain as Prime Minister) was a condition of Labour's agreement to serve in a coalition government in May 1940.[1]
Hoare also served as British ambassador to Spain from 1940 to 1944.[1]
- ^ a b c "TEMPLEWOOD, 1st Viscount". Who Was Who. Oxford University Press. December 2007. Retrieved 2 January 2012.