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Samuel Hoare

Samuel John Gurney Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood, 2nd Baronet, (1880-1959) was a British Conservative politician who served in various capacities in the Tory governments of the 1920s and 30s. He was most famous for his role as Foreign Secretary in 1935, when he had to deal with the Italian invasion of Ethiopia. Together with French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval, he developed the so-called Hoare-Laval Agreement, which would have granted Italy considerable territorial concessions in Ethiopia, and put the rump of Ethiopia under Italian hegemony. The public uproar against this apparent sell-out of the Ethiopians led to Hoare's resignation as Foreign Secretary at the end of the year. Nevertheless, Hoare continued to serve in important posts in later governments. Upon Winston Churchill's appointment as Prime Minister in 1940, Hoare lost his cabinet position and was sent off as Ambassador to Spain, a position which he retained until 1944, when he returned to Britain and was raised to the peerage as Viscount Templewood. The title became extinct upon his death in 1959.

Preceded by: Frederick Guest	Secretary of State for Air 1922–1924	Followed by: The Lord Thomson
Preceded by: The Lord Thomson	Secretary of State for Air 1924–1929	The Lord Thomson
Preceded by: William Wedgwood Benn	Secretary of State for India 1931–1935	Followed by: Sir John Simon	Foreign Secretary 1935	Followed by: Anthony Eden
Preceded by: The Viscount Monsell	First Lord of the Admiralty 1936–1937	Followed by: Duff Cooper
Preceded by: Sir John Simon	Home Secretary 1937–1939	Followed by: Sir John Anderson
Preceded by: Sir John Anderson	Lord Privy Seal 1939–1940	Followed by: Sir Kingsley Wood
Preceded by: Sir Kingsley Wood	Secretary of State for Air 1940	Followed by: Sir Archibald Sinclair