• Peerage of the United Kingdom
• Postmaster (1942)

Date of birth:

February 24th, 1880 (London, United Kingdom)

Date of death:

May 7th, 1959 (London, United Kingdom)

Nationality:

British

Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood, was a prominent British Conservative politician and diplomat. Educated at Harrow and Oxford, he entered Parliament in 1910 as MP for Chelsea and held the seat until 1944. During World War I, he served in British intelligence in Russia and Italy.

Hoare held several key cabinet posts in the interwar period, including Secretary of State for Air, India, and Foreign Affairs. As India Secretary, he oversaw the Government of India Act 1935, which introduced provincial self-government. His tenure as Foreign Secretary was marked by the controversial Hoare–Laval Pact, which proposed concessions to Mussolini during Italy’s invasion of Abyssinia, leading to his resignation.

He later served as Home Secretary and briefly as Secretary of State for Air during WWII, before becoming British Ambassador to Spain (1940–1944). Elevated to the peerage in 1944, he remained active in public life until his death in 1959.

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