Maud Hoare, Viscountess Templewood, DBE (née Lady Maud Lygon; 5 July 1882 – 27 December 1962), known as Lady Maud Hoare from 1909 to 1944, daughter of the 6th Earl Beauchamp, was the wife of Sir Samuel Hoare, and a DBE in her own right. She was a half-sister of the 7th Earl Beauchamp, a homosexual who became an exile having been denounced by his brother-in-law the Duke of Westminster. She married the then Samuel Hoare on 17 October 1909, four years before he succeeded to his father's

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. Their marriage was childless. The following is from ''

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'' dated 28 February 1927: ''"Sir Samuel Hoare, British Air Minister, and Lady Maud returned to London, last week, from a 12,000-mile round trip flight inaugurating the London-Cairo-Delhi air service (TIME, Jan. 10). For this feat she was appointed

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(DBE). She is the first woman ever to fly so many miles. There had been snow, rain, fog, sandstorms, but not a spare part was needed for the ship."'' Lady Maud Hoare formally opened the newly expanded and improved London

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on 2 May 1928, Britain's main international airport at the time. She also laid the foundation stone of the new RAF College at

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in 1929.

Death

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Templewood, as she became known after the creation of her husband's

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in 1944, was widowed in 1959 and died in 1962 aged 80.

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