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: '''The Marquess of Zetland |
| Preceded 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 |