Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood
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The Right Honourable The Viscount Templewood GCSI GBE CMG PC JP |
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| Secretary of State for Air | |
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In office 3 April 1940 – 10 May 1940 |
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| Prime Minister | Neville Chamberlain |
| Preceded by | Kingsley Wood |
| Succeeded by | Archibald Sinclair |
| Lord Privy Seal | |
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In office 3 September 1939 – 3 April 1940 |
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| Prime Minister | Neville Chamberlain |
| Preceded by | Sir John Anderson |
| Succeeded by | Kingsley Wood |
| Home Secretary | |
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In office 28 May 1937 – 3 September 1939 |
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| Prime Minister |
Stanley Baldwin Neville Chamberlain |
| Preceded by | Sir John Simon |
| Succeeded by | Sir John Anderson |
| Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs | |
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In office 7 June 1935 – 18 December 1935 |
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| Prime Minister | Stanley Baldwin |
| Preceded by | Sir John Simon |
| Succeeded by | Anthony Eden |
| Secretary of State for India | |
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In office 25 August 1931 – 7 June 1935 |
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| Prime Minister | Ramsay Macdonald |
| Preceded by | The Viscount Peel |
| Succeeded by | The Marquess of Zetland |
| Secretary of State for Air | |
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In office 31 October 1922 – 4 June 1929 |
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| Prime Minister |
Stanley Baldwin Ramsay Macdonald |
| Preceded by | Frederick Guest |
| Succeeded by | Christopher Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Samuel John Gurney Hoare 24 February 1880 London, England |
| Died |
7 May 1959 (aged 79) London, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Lady Maud Lygon |
| Alma mater | New College, Oxford |
| Religion | Anglicanism |
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| Allegiance |
 United Kingdom
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| Service/branch |
 British Army
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| 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. He was Secretary of State for Air during most of the 1920s and briefly again in 1940. He is perhaps most famous for serving as Foreign Secretary in 1935, when he authored the Hoare–Laval Pact with French Prime Minister Pierre Laval. In 1936 he became First Lord of the Admiralty, then served as Home Secretary from 1937 to 1939 and was British ambassador to Spain from 1940 to 1944.
Hoare was born in London, an Anglican descendant of the Quaker Samuel Hoare and the son of Sir Samuel Hoare, 1st Baronet, to whose baronetcy he succeeded in 1915. Hoare was educated at Harrow School and New College, Oxford, where he graduated with a B.A. in 1903 and M.A. in 1910 and later became Honorary Fellow. He married in 1909 Lady Maud Lygon, youngest daughter of Frederick Lygon, 6th Earl Beauchamp. Their marriage was childless.
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