Templewood of Chelsea, Samuel John Gurney Hoare (1880–1959)

British statesman, diplomat, and Conservative politician.

From 1910 until 1944 he was Conservative MP for Chelsea. He was secretary of state for air 1922–24, and from November 1924 to 1929, and secretary of state for India 1931–35. He then became foreign secretary, but resigned, owing to the violent criticism evoked by the Hoare–Laval Pact. Later, he held successively the posts of home secretary and secretary for air, and from 1940 to 1944 was ambassador in Spain. In 1944 he was created a viscount. Templewood was deeply interested in penal reform. His publications include The Shadow of the Gallows 1951, and Nine Troubled Years 1954.

He was educated at Harrow and at New College, Oxford.