Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood

The Viscount Templewood
Secretary of State for Air
In office
3 April 1940 – 10 May 1940
Prime MinisterNeville Chamberlain
Preceded byKingsley Wood
Succeeded byArchibald Sinclair
In office
6 December 1924 – 4 June 1929
Prime MinisterStanley Baldwin
Preceded byThe Lord Thomson
Succeeded byThe Lord Thomson
In office
31 October 1922 – 22 January 1924
Prime MinisterStanley Baldwin
Preceded byFrederick Guest
Succeeded byThe Lord Thomson
Lord Privy Seal
In office
3 September 1939 – 3 April 1940
Prime MinisterNeville Chamberlain
Preceded bySir John Anderson
Succeeded byKingsley Wood
Home Secretary
In office
28 May 1937 – 3 September 1939
Prime MinisterStanley Baldwin
Neville Chamberlain
Preceded bySir John Simon
Succeeded bySir John Anderson
Foreign Secretary
In office
7 June 1935 – 18 December 1935
Prime MinisterStanley Baldwin
Preceded bySir John Simon
Succeeded byAnthony Eden
Secretary of State for India
In office
25 August 1931 – 7 June 1935
Prime MinisterRamsay MacDonald
Preceded byThe Viscount Peel
Succeeded byThe 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 byEmslie Horniman
Succeeded byWilliam Sidney
Personal details
Born
Samuel John Gurney Hoare

(1880-02-24)24 February 1880
London, England
Died(1959-05-07)7 May 1959 (aged 79)
London, England
Political partyConservative
SpouseLady Maud Lygon
ParentSir Samuel Hoare, 1st Baronet (father)
Alma materNew College, Oxford
Military service
Allegiance United Kingdom
Branch/service British Army
Years of service1916–1918
RankLieutenant colonel
UnitNorfolk Yeomanry
Royal Army Service Corps
Battles/warsWorld 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]

  1. ^ a b c "TEMPLEWOOD, 1st Viscount". Who Was Who. Oxford University Press. December 2007. Retrieved 2 January 2012.