George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen
George Joachim Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen ( born August 10, 1831 in London, † February 7, 1907 ibid, Georg Joachim Goschen ) was a British politician and businessman.
Life and work
George Joachim Goschen was the son of German merchant William Henry Goschen ( William Henry Goschen ), brother of Edward Goschen and grandson of Georg Joachim Goschen Saxon publisher. Goshen College visited the Rugby in Rugby under Tait and Oriel College, University of Oxford.
In 1851 he joined his father's company " Fruhling & Goschen, of Austin Friars ". In 1853 he became a director at the Bank of England. 1863 and 1865 he was sent as a representative of the City of London to the House of Commons. In the same year he was appointed Deputy Minister of Trade and Paymaster General ( Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance), 1866 he took over the post of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and was member of the Government with the rank of Cabinet Minister.
1868 Gladstone appointed him chairman of the committee on drafting the law on poverty ( Poor Law Board). His sister Marion (1845-1877) married in 1869 the later Prime Minister of Saxony Karl Georg Levin of Metzsch -Reichenbach.
As a Liberal, he served from 1871 to 1874 as First Lord of the Admiralty ( Admiralty ) under Gladstone. From 1874 to 1880 he was governor of the Hudson 's Bay Company. In 1880, he proposed a new way into the government as well as the Gladstone post of Viceroy of India, but was ambassador to the Ottoman Empire.
As a member of the Liberal Unionists he held from 1887 to 1892 the office of the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the government of Salisbury in following the retiring Lord Randolph Churchill. From 1895 to 1900 he again served as the Secretary of the Navy, now a member of the Conservative Party.
In education, Goshen became famous for his contribution to the abolition of religious tests for all students and to increase the number of UK universities. For this he received various honors from British universities. He was also a strong advocate of free trade.
From 1886 to 1888 he was president of the Royal Statistical Society. In 1900 he was raised as Viscount Goschen to the peer. He died in 1907.