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Up for sale "1st Viscount Templewood" Samuel Hoare Cut Signature.
ES-9645
Samuel
John Gurney Hoare, 1st Viscount 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. As Secretary of State for India in the early
1930s, he authored the Government of India Act 1935, which
granted provincial-level self government to India. He is 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. He was British
ambassador to Spain from 1940 to 1944
