George Joachim Goschen
George Joachim Goschen


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George Joachim Goschen 
Eldest son and second child of William Henry Goschen (1793-1866), a merchant banker of German extraction
 
Date (from)(Date to)Event
10 August 1831 Born (Stoke Newington)
2 June 18633 April 1880M.P. (Liberal) for London
1865 Privy Councellor
November 1865January 1866Vice-president of the Board of Trade and Paymaster-general
January 1866July 1866Chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster
December 1868March 1871President of the Poor Law Board in Gladstones cabinet
9 March 18714 March 1874First Lord of the Admiralty in Gladstone's 1st government
2 April 18802 December 1885M.P. for Ripon (until resigning from Gladstone's government, being opposed to an extension of the franchise and Home Rule for Ireland, and becoming a Liberal Unionist)
25 November 18856 July 1886M.P. for Edinburgh East
December 18861892Chancellor of the Exchequer in Lord Salibsury's (Conservative and Liberal Unionist) administration
9 February 18872 October 1900M.P. for St Gerorge's, Hanover Square (joining the Conservatives in 1893)
18901893Rector of the University of Edinburgh
6 July 18951900First Lord of the Admiralty in the Marquis of Salisbury 3rd cabinet (Conservative)
12 October 1900 Elevated to the peerage as Viscount Goschen of Hawkhurst, Kent
19031907Chancellor of the University of Oxford
7 February 1907 Died


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