Giles Goschen, 4th Viscount Goschen explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Right Honourable
The Viscount Goschen
Office1:Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport
Primeminister1:John Major
Term Start1:20 July 1994
Term End1:2 May 1997
Predecessor1:The Lord MacKay of Ardbrecknish
Successor1:Gavin Strang (as minister of state)
Office2:Lord-in-waiting
Government Whip
Primeminister2:John Major
Term Start2:22 April 1992
Term End2:20 July 1994
Predecessor2:The Earl Howe
Successor2:The Lord Lucas of Crudwell
Office3:Member of the House of Lords
Status3:Lord Temporal
Term Label3:as a hereditary peer
Term Start3:15 July 1988
Term End3:11 November 1999
Predecessor3:The 3rd Viscount Goschen
Successor3:Seat abolished
Term Label4:as an elected hereditary peer
Term Start4:11 November 1999
Predecessor4:Seat established
Birth Date:16 November 1965
Party:Conservative

Giles John Harry Goschen, 4th Viscount Goschen (born 16 November 1965[1]), is a British Conservative politician.

Goschen is the son of John Goschen, 3rd Viscount Goschen, by his second wife Alvin England. He was educated at Heatherdown School, near Ascot in Berkshire,[2] and Eton. He succeeded his father in the viscountcy in 1977 at the age of eleven. After a brief stint as a city stockbroker he spent time in Zambia with his future wife Sarah Horsnail to work for a conservation agency, but returned to Britain.[3]

Goschen served under John Major as a Lord-in-waiting from 1992 to 1994 and as Under Secretary of State for Transport from 1994[4] to 1997. In 1999 he was among the Conservative hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999, the youngest chosen by any party group.[5]

In 2010, he lived in Sussex with his wife and three children.

Notes and References

  1. News: Birthdays . The Daily Telegraph . Telegraph Media Group Limited . 15 November 2014.
  2. News: Blake . Heidi . Wardrop . Murray . Heatherdown Prep: the exclusive school that taught David Cameron his ambition . 21 August 2021 . The Telegraph . 27 February 2010 . https://archive.today/20210821011042/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/0/heatherdown-prep-exclusive-school-taught-david-cameron-ambition/ . 21 August 2021.
  3. News: Thomson . Alice . Labour aims to torpedo 'boy scout' on the bridge - Accident . The Times . Times Newspapers Limited . 22 February 1996.
  4. News: Batchelor . Charles . Mopping up after a maritime disaster: Lord Goschen presents a robust defence of the government's policy on tanker safety . Financial Times . The Financial Times Ltd . 24 February 1996.
  5. Book: Verkaik . Robert . Posh boys : how the English public schools ruin Britain . 2018 . Oneworld Publications . London . 9781786073846.