George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen
In November of the same year he was appointed Vice-President of the Board of Trade and Paymaster General, and in January 1866 he was made Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, with a seat in the cabinet.When Gladstone became prime minister in December 1868, Goschen joined the cabinet as President of the Poor Law Board, until March 1871, when he succeeded Childers as First Lord of the Admiralty.He declined to join Gladstone's government in 1880 and refused the post of Viceroy of India, but he became special ambassador to the Porte, where he settled the Montenegrin and Greek frontier questions in 1880 and 1881.Though he had been a leading Liberal Unionist as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Goschen did not stand against Joseph Chamberlain for the leadership of the party in 1892 following the departure of Hartington to the House of Lords as the Duke of Devonshire.Though retired from active politics he continued to take a great interest in public affairs, and when Chamberlain started his tariff reform movement in 1903, Lord Goschen was one of the weightiest champions of free trade on the Unionist side.His published works indicate how ably he combined the wise study of economics with a practical instinct for business-like progress, without neglecting the more ideal aspects of human life.In addition to his well-known work on The Theory of Foreign Exchanges, he published several financial and political pamphlets and addresses on educational and social subjects, among them being,The Cultivation of the Imagination, Liverpool, 1877, and that on Intellectual Interest, Aberdeen, 1888.This culminated a long-standing project to refute allegations of Jewish ancestry,[1]: 1 giving his earliest ascertainable ancestor as a Lutheran pastor named Joachimus Gosenius, recorded in 1609.
George Goschen, 2nd Viscount GoschenGeorg Joachim GöschenThe Right HonourableFirst Lord of the AdmiraltyThe Marquess of SalisburyThe Earl SpencerThe Earl of SelborneChancellor of the ExchequerLord Randolph ChurchillSir William Vernon HarcourtWilliam Ewart GladstoneHugh ChildersGeorge Ward HuntPresident of the Poor Law BoardThe Earl of DevonJames StansfeldChancellor of the Duchy of LancasterThe Earl RussellThe Earl of ClarendonThomas Edward TaylorPaymaster GeneralVice-President of the Board of TradeWilliam HuttWilliam MonsellMember of the House of LordsLord TemporalPeerage created2nd Viscount GoschenWestminster St George'sLord Algernon PercyHon. Heneage LeggeEdinburgh EastRobert WallaceEarl de GreyWilliam HarkerCity of LondonWestern WoodWilliam LawrenceLiberalLiberal UnionistConservativeRugby SchoolAlma materOriel College, OxfordVanity FairConservative PartyGoschen formulaLeipzigLiterae HumanioresPresidentOxford UnionFrühling & GöschenBank of EnglandHudson's Bay CompanyEnglishroyal charterGladstoneprime ministerChilders1874 general electionmajorityKhedivefranchise1880 general electionViceroy of IndiaMontenegrinEcclesiastical CommissionerSir Henry BrandpeerageSpeaker of the House of Commonsforeign policyHome Rule for IrelandLord HartingtonLiberal UnionistsParliament of the United KingdomLong titleCitation51 & 52 Vict.Royal assentlegislation.gov.ukLord SalisburyministryLiverpool Exchange constituencyJanuary 1887St George's, Hanover SquareNational DebtRoy JenkinsUniversity of AberdeenUniversity of CambridgeUniversity of EdinburghJoseph ChamberlainCarlton ClubViscount GoschenChamberlaintariff reform movementfree tradeDissentersPresident of the Royal Statistical SocietyLutheranGeorgeLord CranbrookStone's FallIain PearsA. R. D. FairburnFinancial TimesJenkins, Roypublic domainChisholm, HughEncyclopædia BritannicaArthur D. ElliotWikisourceHansardNational Portrait Gallery, LondonUK National ArchivesBaron Lionel de RothschildSir James Duke, BtRobert Wigram CrawfordCharles BellWilliam CottonPhilip TwellsJohn HubbardSir Robert FowlerSt George, Hanover SquareHeneage LeggeSir William HuttSir William Harcourt