Viscount Goschen, of Hawkhurst in the County of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created in 1900 for the politician George Goschen upon his retirement from a long political career, during which he served variously as Member of Parliament

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, Vice-President of the Board of Trade

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, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

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, President of the Poor Law Board, Chancellor of the Exchequer

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 and First Lord of the Admiralty. His son, the second Viscount, sat as a Conservative

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 Member of Parliament

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 for East Grinstead

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 and served as Governor of Madras. His nephew, the third Viscount, served as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard

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 (Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Lords

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) in the Conservative administrations of Harold Macmillan

Harold Macmillan

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, Sir Alec Douglas-Home

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 and Edward Heath

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. the title is held by the latter's son, the fourth Viscount, who succeeded in 1977. He held junior ministerial positions in the Conservative government of John Major

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 and is now one of the ninety elected hereditary peer

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s that remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999

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. The family seat is Hilton House, near Crowthorne

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, Berkshire

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.

The diplomat Sir Edward Goschen, 1st Baronet was the younger brother of the first Viscount.

Viscounts Goschen (1900)

• George Joachim Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen (1831–1907)
• George Joachim Goschen, 2nd Viscount Goschen
  George Goschen, 2nd Viscount Goschen
  George Joachim Goschen, 2nd Viscount Goschen GCSI GCIE CBE VD PC was a British politician who served as Member of Parliament for East Grinstead from 1895 to 1906 and as Governor of Madras from 1924 to 1929....
  
   (1866–1952)
• John Alexander Goschen, 3rd Viscount Goschen
  John Goschen, 3rd Viscount Goschen
  John Alexander Goschen, 3rd Viscount Goschen KBE , was a British Conservative politician.Goschen was the son of the Hon. Sir William Henry Goschen, second son of George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen. He was a Colonel in the Grenadier Guards and served with the British Military Mission to Greece...
  
   (1906–1977)
• Giles John Harry Goschen, 4th Viscount Goschen
  Giles Goschen, 4th Viscount Goschen
  Giles John Harry Goschen, 4th Viscount Goschen is a British politician who succeeded as 4th Viscount Goschen in 1977....
  
   (b. 1965)

The heir apparent

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is the present holder's son Hon. Alexander John Edward Goschen (b. 2001)