Pair Crest Plates HOARE SIDESTRAND HALL Norfolk

A good pair of  Spode Copeland plates, mader for the HOARE family of Sidestand Hall, Norfolk.
Crest "In front of a stag's head erased arg., three crosses couped sa."
 
Sir Samuel John Gurney Hoare 1880-1959 Baronet , Viscount Templewood, GCSI,GBE,CMG,PC.
 
Secretary of State India 1931-35
Foreign Secretary 1935
First Lord of the Admiralty 1936-7
Lord Privy Seal 1959-40
Secretary of State for Air 1940
 
Grand Cross of the Order of the White Lion of Czecholsovakia,
Grand Cross of the Pole Star of Sweden
Grand Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog of Danmark
Grand Cross of the Order of Orange Nassau  of the Netherlands
Ambassador to Spain 1940-44
 
Working for British Intellegence during World War I , a recruiting officer in Russia. He reported the death of Rasputin to the British Government. He recruited Benito Mussolini in 1917. 
He was instrumental in arranging the 'Kindertransport' in 1935 to rescue Jewish children from Europe.
 
A man of boundless energy and ambition, he believed he could change the world for the better.
He later even appeared on the cover of Time magazine.
 
Perfect condition, measure approx 9 Inches wide.
Retailers marks for Thomas Goode, London.