Viscount Goschen, of Hawkhurst in the County of Kent, is a title in the

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. It was created in 1900 for the politician George Goschen.

History

The Goschen family descended from prominent publisher and printer

Georg Joachim Göschen Georg Joachim Göschen (22 April 1752Several sources list 22 December 1752 as his date of birth; while others list 22 April 1752 as the date he was baptised. – 5 April 1828) was a German publisher and bookseller in Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony, ...

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. His third son, Wilhelm Heinrich (William Henry) Göschen (1793–1866), came to England in 1814 and the next year co-founded the merchant banking firm "

Frühling & Göschen Sir William Henry Neville Goschen, 1st Baronet, (30 October 1865 – 7 July 1945), known as Harry Goschen, was a British businessman and banker from the prominent Goschen family. Family and early life Harry was born at 7 Chapel Street, Grosve ...

", of Leipzig and London. Wilhelm's eldest son

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joined the family firm before he entered politics. He served variously as

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President of the Poor Law Board The Poor Law Board was established in the United Kingdom in 1847 as a successor body to the Poor Law Commission overseeing the administration of the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834. The new body was headed by a President, and with the Lord President of ...

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and

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. He was raised to the peerage in December 1900 by

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. George's son, the second Viscount, sat as a

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for

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and served as

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. The second Viscount's only son, Lieutenant George Joachim Goschen (1893–1916), was killed during the

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, dying of wounds received during the

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. Upon the second Viscount's death in 1952, the title was inherited by his nephew John Goschen, the second son of his brother, Sir William Henry Goschen (1870–1943). Sir William's eldest son, Brig.-Gen. William Henry Goschen (1900–1944), was killed in action in Burma in the

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. The third Viscount served as

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(Deputy Chief Whip in the

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) in the Conservative administrations of

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and

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. , the title is held by the fourth Viscount, who succeeded in 1977. He held junior ministerial positions in the Conservative government of

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and is now one of the 90 elected

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s that remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the

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. The diplomat

Sir Edward Goschen, 1st Baronet Sir William Edward Goschen, 1st Baronet, (18 July 1847 – 20 May 1924) was a British diplomat. Background and education Goschen was born at Eltham, England, the twelfth child and sixth son of Wilhelm Heinrich Göschen, originally of Leipzig, ...

, was the younger brother of the first Viscount. The family seat is Hilton House, near

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Viscounts Goschen (1900)

George Joachim Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen George Joachim Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen, PC, DL, FBA (10 August 1831 – 7 February 1907) was a British statesman and businessman best remembered for being "forgotten" by Lord Randolph Churchill. He was initially a Liberal, then a Libera ...

(1831–1907) * George Joachim Goschen, 2nd Viscount Goschen (1866–1952), son of the first Viscount * John Alexander Goschen, 3rd Viscount Goschen (1906–1977), nephew of the second Viscount * Giles John Harry Goschen, 4th Viscount Goschen (born 1965), son of the third Viscount The

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is the present holder's son, the Hon. Alexander John Edward Goschen (born 2001).

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History

Viscounts Goschen (1900)

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