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Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood.
British Conservative politician (1880-1959)
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About Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood
Samuel John Gurney Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood, 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 ambitious and his expedience and flexibility gave him a reputation for being unprincipled and two-faced, being nicknamed "Slippery Sam" or "Soapy Sam".
Everything about Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood →- Occupation
- politician, diplomat, ambassador, secretary of state
- Position held
- Home Secretary, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Secretary of State for India, Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Born
- February 24, 1880
- Died
- May 7, 1959