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Goschen (GEORGE JOACHIM g shen)

GEORGE JOACHIM (gō' shen), an English statesman; born in London, England, Aug. 10, 1831. He was educated at Rugby and Oriel College, Oxford. In 1863 he entered Parliament as a Liberal for the city of London.

When Lord Russell, after Palmerston's death, reorganized the Liberal ministry, he appointed Goschen vice-president of the Board of Trade, in November, 1865.

In the following January the latter tered the cabinet as chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. When Gladstone became prime minister in 1868, Goschen took office as president of the poor-law board and in 1871 the head of the admiralty, which post he retained till the fall of the Gladstone ministry in 1874.

His next public work was the regulation, in conjunction with Joubert, of the GOSHEN Egyptian finances (1876). In 1878 he represented Great Britain at the International Monetary Conference held at Paris, and two years afterward, as ambassador extraordinary to the Porte, enforced on Turkey the fulfillment toward Greece of the treaty of Berlin. He strenuously opposed home rule; in 1887- 1892 was Unionist Chancellor of the Exchequer, and in 1888 converted part of the national debt. In 1895-1896, as First Lord of the Admiralty, he made provision for increasing the navy. He published "Foreign Exchanges" (16th edition, 1894), besides addresses, pamphlets, books on education, etc.; and was Lord Rector of Aberdeen and Edinburgh Universities. He sat for London 1863- 1880; Ripon 1880-1885; East Edinburgh 1885-1886, and St. George's, 1887-1886.

He died in 1907.