George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen
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Born | London, England | 10 August 1831||||||||||||||||
Died | 7 February 1907 London, England | (aged 75)||||||||||||||||
Political party | Liberal Liberal Unionist Conservative | ||||||||||||||||
Education | Rugby School | ||||||||||||||||
Alma mater | Oriel College, Oxford | ||||||||||||||||
George Joachim Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen
While Chancellor of the Exchequer, in 1888, he introduced the Goschen formula to allocate funding for Scotland and Ireland.
Background, education and business career
He was born in London, the son of Wilhelm Heinrich (William Henry) Goschen, who emigrated from
Political career, 1863–1885
In 1863 he was returned without opposition as one of the four
In 1878 his views on the county
Political career, 1885–1895
On the resignation of
According to Roy Jenkins, a former Chancellor of the Exchequer, "Whether Goschen was a good Chancellor is more problematical. His main and real achievement was the conversion in 1888 of the core of the national debt from a 3 percent to a 2.75 percent and ultimately 2.5 percent basis. For the rest he was a stolid and uninnovating Chancellor." Professor Thomas Skinner wrote, "Yet there remains a feeling that he failed to accomplish much of what needed to be done".[7]
The
Following the defeat of Salisbury's government in 1892, Goschen moved into opposition. 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. Unable to work with Chamberlain, Goschen left the Liberal Unionists and joined the Conservatives in 1893. One obvious sign of his change of allegiance within the Unionist alliance was when he joined the exclusively Conservative Carlton Club in the same year.
Political career, 1895–1907
From 1895 to 1900 Goschen was
Other public positions
In educational subjects Goschen had always taken the greatest interest, his best known, but by no means his only, contribution to popular culture being his participation in the University Extension Movement. His first efforts in parliament were devoted to advocating the abolition of religious tests and the admission of
He also wrote a biography of his grandfather, The Life and Times of George Joachim Goschen, publisher and printer of Leipzig (1903). This culminated a long-standing project to refute allegations of Jewish ancestry,
Private life
Goschen died on 7 February 1907. He had married, in 1857, Lucy, the daughter of John Dalley, and had 6[12] children. He was succeeded by his eldest son George (1866–1952), who was also a Conservative politician, served as Governor of Madras and married the daughter of Lord Cranbrook.[2]
Cultural references
- Goschen appears as a minor character in the historical-mystery novel Stone's Fall, by Iain Pears.
- He is referenced in the poem Away from It All by New Zealand poet A. R. D. Fairburn:
I want to leave behind me all rancid emotion.
I want to be alone. I want to forget Goschen.[13]
References
- ^ ISBN 9780521202107– via Internet Archive.
July.
- ^ a b c d e f g Chisholm 1911, p. 263.
- ^ "Tidy up the mess the Goschen way". Financial Times. 20 July 2011. Archived from the original on 10 December 2022.
- ^ "The speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer". The Times. 27 March 1888.
- ^ "The Excise Duties (Local)". The Times. 27 March 1888.
- ^ "Car tax disc to be axed after 93 years". BBC News. 5 December 2013.
- ISBN 0333730577.
- ^ "Goschen, George Joachim (GSCN888GJ)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Chisholm 1911, pp. 263–264.
- ^ Goschen, George Joachim (1903). The Life and Times of Georg Joachim Goschen, printer of Leipzig 1752–1828, Volume 1. p. 3.
- ^ "NOBLE FAMILIES OF JEWISH ANCESTRY". Archived from the original on 9 September 2012. Retrieved 25 September 2012.
- ^ 1871 England Census; Class: RG10; Piece: 1047; Folio: 92; Page: 3; GSU roll: 827483 in conjunction with 1891 England Census; Class: RG12; Piece: 779; Folio: 79; Page: 4; GSU roll: 6095889
- ^ A. R. D. Fairburn. "Away from It All". Retrieved 11 April 2015.
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh (1911). "Goschen, George Joachim Goschen, 1st Viscount". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 263–264. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
Further reading
- Archive.org (sign in to access books and to link footnotes)
- The Times (of London) archives
- Thomas J. Spinner: George Joachim Goschen: the transformation of a Victorian liberal, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973 ISBN 0-521-20210-8
- Goschen, George: The Life and Times of Georg Joachim Goschen, Vol. I, New York: G. P. Putnam, 1903
- Goschen, George: The Life and Times of Georg Joachim Goschen, Vol. II, New York: G.P. Putnam, 1903
- Arthur D. Elliot: The life of George Joachim Goschen, First Viscount Goschen, 1831–1907. 2v. London: Longmans Green, 1911
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Viscount Goschen
- Portraits of George Joachim Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen at the National Portrait Gallery, London
- "Goschen, George Joachim (GSCN888GJ)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- "Archival material relating to George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen". UK National Archives.